tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141878910793686547.post1099899413518146665..comments2024-03-27T17:16:47.951+01:00Comments on UNDER MATTAN: "Show Must Go On": al-Qaidas rebeller regerar i Iraks näst största stad - "al-Qaida-demokrati?"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141878910793686547.post-36883124893174232332014-06-14T18:34:17.910+02:002014-06-14T18:34:17.910+02:00--The US Air Force Almost Nuked North Carolina--
...--The US Air Force Almost Nuked North Carolina--<br /><br />2014-06-13<br /><br />The United States narrowly averted a nuclear disaster in 1961 after two atomic bombs fell from a B-52 bomber and came frighteningly close to detonating in North Carolina, newly-released documents reveal.<br /><br />On January 24, 1961, two hydrogen bombs fell from a B-52 as it broke apart in the sky and hit the ground near the city of Goldsboro.<br /><br />The Air Force bomber suffered a “failure of the right wing” and broke in half while flying over North Carolina, said documents revealed by the National Security Archive this week.<br />As the bombs were plunging toward the ground the parachute for one failed to deploy.<br /><br />The weapon whose parachute opened landed intact but the second bomb landed in a “free fall” with the impact of the crash putting it in the “armed” setting.<br /><br />Fortunately, a part of the bomb needed to initiate an explosion was damaged as it hit the ground. If the 4-megaton bomb had been detonated, a disaster worse than the devastation wrought in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 could have befallen the United States.<br /><br />Each bomb was capable of generating explosions 260 times more powerful than the one that devastated Hiroshima.<br /><br />The bombs the US dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were 0.01 and 0.02 megatons respectively.<br /><br />Eight crew members were aboard the B-52 and five survived the crash.<br /><br />http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=47717Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com