HisIceness
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...exploding-shock-crash-landing-caused-arm.html
Yeah. One little switch saved America from catastrophe
In 1961 America almost nuked itself
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...exploding-shock-crash-landing-caused-arm.html
Yeah. One little switch saved America from catastrophe
Carolinas Identity*
I'm a bad troll...
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Carolinas Identity*
I'm a bad troll...
**** yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111one*
* - canada is not allowed comment as they do not have any nukes
if they did
it is entirely possible that saskatchewan would have been nuked by now
if y'all need help
while i am not a properly trained chemist
i know how centrifuges work
and how to separate u-235 from u-238
i also handled uf6 once (not even kidding
scariest moment of my life lol)
RandV
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Legionnaire
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There's still a lost H-bomb in the Okefenokee. If it had gone off, I likely would not be here today. I know, too bad, but what can you do?
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tarheelhockey
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Nevertheless, this did really happen. I first heard about it years ago. It's kind of chilling to realize that a town down the road from your home was nearly obliterated in a completely random and accidental nuclear holocaust.
HisIceness
This is Hurricanes Hockey
Indeed.
There's a pretty good chance Raleigh, and North Carolina for that matter, would not be what it is today had this happened.
Legionnaire
Help On The Way
You would be dead due to the fallout. So I don't think you would really be worrying about Raleigh or North Carolina. Because, you know, you'd be dead.
tarheelhockey
Offside Review Specialist
Seriously, there's a significant chance that I, and many of the people who are most important to me, would never have been born. It's a crazy alternate reality to think about.
jasonleaffan
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May 21, 1946 – Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA – Accidental criticality
While demonstrating his technique to visiting scientists at Los Alamos, Canadian physicist Louis Slotin manually assembled a critical mass of plutonium. A momentary slip of a screwdriver caused a prompt critical reaction. Slotin died on May 30 from massive radiation poisoning, with an estimated dose of 1,000 rads (rad), or 10 grays (Gy). Seven observers, who received doses as high as 166 rads, survived, yet three died within a few decades from conditions believed to be radiation-related.
I got this from wiki, the weird thing is he was working with a core that came to be known as the demon core. Which was involved in another accident prior to this one which resulted in a scientist dieing.
While demonstrating his technique to visiting scientists at Los Alamos, Canadian physicist Louis Slotin manually assembled a critical mass of plutonium. A momentary slip of a screwdriver caused a prompt critical reaction. Slotin died on May 30 from massive radiation poisoning, with an estimated dose of 1,000 rads (rad), or 10 grays (Gy). Seven observers, who received doses as high as 166 rads, survived, yet three died within a few decades from conditions believed to be radiation-related.
I got this from wiki, the weird thing is he was working with a core that came to be known as the demon core. Which was involved in another accident prior to this one which resulted in a scientist dieing.
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jasonleaffan
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February 13, 1950 – Pacific Ocean, off Coast of British Columbia – Non-nuclear detonation of an atomic bomb. Weapon briefly thought to have been located by civilian diver in 2016 near Pitt Island but this was subsequently found not to be the case.
A USAF B-36 bomber, AF Ser. No. 44-92075, was flying a simulated combat mission from Eielson Air Force Base, near Fairbanks, Alaska, to Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, Texas, carrying one weapon containing a dummy warhead. The warhead contained conventional explosives and natural uranium but lacked the plutonium core of an actual weapon. After six hours of flight, the bomber experienced mechanical problems and was forced to shut down three of its six engines at an altitude of 12,000 feet (3,700 m). Fearing that severe weather and icing would jeopardize a safe emergency landing, the weapon was jettisoned over the Pacific Ocean from a height of 8,000 ft (2,400 m). The weapon's high explosives detonated upon impact with a bright flash visible. All of the sixteen crew members and one passenger were able to parachute from the plane and twelve were subsequently rescued from Princess Royal Island. The Pentagon's summary report does not mention whether the weapon was later recovered.
Here's another one.
A USAF B-36 bomber, AF Ser. No. 44-92075, was flying a simulated combat mission from Eielson Air Force Base, near Fairbanks, Alaska, to Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, Texas, carrying one weapon containing a dummy warhead. The warhead contained conventional explosives and natural uranium but lacked the plutonium core of an actual weapon. After six hours of flight, the bomber experienced mechanical problems and was forced to shut down three of its six engines at an altitude of 12,000 feet (3,700 m). Fearing that severe weather and icing would jeopardize a safe emergency landing, the weapon was jettisoned over the Pacific Ocean from a height of 8,000 ft (2,400 m). The weapon's high explosives detonated upon impact with a bright flash visible. All of the sixteen crew members and one passenger were able to parachute from the plane and twelve were subsequently rescued from Princess Royal Island. The Pentagon's summary report does not mention whether the weapon was later recovered.
Here's another one.
Hansen
tyler motte simp
*nuxlear ww3 begins and the top blows off the entire Rocky Mountain range revealing the greatest store of atomic weaponry the world has ever seen and somewhere Steven Harper is double ******* 40s of OE howlin w laughter*
jasonleaffan
Registered User
This one hits close to home.
November 10, 1950 – Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada – Non-nuclear detonation of an atomic bomb
Returning one of several U.S. Mark 4 nuclear bombs secretly deployed in Canada, a USAF B-50 had engine trouble and jettisoned the weapon at 10,500 feet (3,200 m). The crew set the bomb to self-destruct at 2,500 ft (760 m) and dropped over the St. Lawrence River. The explosion shook area residents and scattered nearly 100 pounds (45 kg) of uranium (U-238) used in the weapon's tamper. The plutonium core ("pit") was not in the bomb at the time
November 10, 1950 – Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada – Non-nuclear detonation of an atomic bomb
Returning one of several U.S. Mark 4 nuclear bombs secretly deployed in Canada, a USAF B-50 had engine trouble and jettisoned the weapon at 10,500 feet (3,200 m). The crew set the bomb to self-destruct at 2,500 ft (760 m) and dropped over the St. Lawrence River. The explosion shook area residents and scattered nearly 100 pounds (45 kg) of uranium (U-238) used in the weapon's tamper. The plutonium core ("pit") was not in the bomb at the time
Hansen
tyler motte simp
How is this even dealt with nation to nation? Either a cover up or what? Like "oh sorry buddies up north we almost wiped a major city off the map but yknow we have more of these things and you don't so suck it *****"
