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USAF Almost Nuked North Carolina In 1961 – Declassified Document
Freshly Exhumed sends in a story about how close the United States came to accidentally attacking itself with nuclear weapons just a few days after John F. Kennedy took office.
"A secret document, published in declassified form for the first time by the Guardian today, reveals that the U.S. Air Force came dramatically close to detonating an atom bomb over North Carolina that would have been 260 times more powerful than the device that devastated Hiroshima. The document, obtained by the investigative journalist Eric Schlosser under the Freedom of Information Act, gives the first conclusive evidence that the US was narrowly spared a disaster of monumental proportions when two Mark 39 hydrogen bombs were accidentally dropped over Goldsboro, North Carolina on 23 January 1961. The bombs fell to earth after a B-52 bomber broke up in mid-air, and one of the devices behaved precisely as a nuclear weapon was designed to behave in warfare: its parachute opened, its trigger mechanisms engaged, and only one low-voltage switch prevented untold carnage."
It would've been some ironical justice for what was done to innocent children and women in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I think all U.S nuclear weapons should on completion have been pointed straight upwards and fired immediately. It would've been the most appropriate use.
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Hey folks, it's just South Carolina. Home of Gamecocks and racists. What's the loss?
My karma is bad. Don't get too close!!!
With NC as the new Right wing GOP experiment, it may become a desolate wasteland of poverty, lizards, and ignorance... without all that pesky radiation.
yeah, and as usual you idiot yankees missed both aim points, so totaly buggered the "test" results. american build quality still at the same level of a bad russian tractor factory is all that stopped you idiots nuking yerselfs, pity it did'nt go off,that bent bastard kennedy would have,his hands full explaining that one, but as usual, it would have been someone else's fault. idiot yankees think everything can be be laughed off, i did'nt notice many of you laughing on 10/11 12 years ago, but i did, and then you made it even funnier by buying oil from the saudis and by proping up the paki government. ha ha, what a laugh you cretinous clowns are, and you try and tell the rest of us how to behave in our own countries, oh how we shall laugh when the chinese want thei money back in a few years time, piss our selfs silly we will,or you are you going to expect that pack of hyenas in isreal to save you?