Who needs North Carolina anyway?

[kallend 1,648]

www.foxnews.com/world/2013/09/21/us-nearly-detonated-atomic-bomb-by-accident-in-161-file/

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[Gene03 0]

Sun Path?

“The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec quotes (Polish writer, poet and satirist 1906-1966)

[shropshire 0]

Gene03

Sun Path?

They would have had their own SUN.

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[RonD1120 58]

At that time those incidents were referred to as "Broken Arrow" emergencies. I was stationed at Keesler AFB, MS and would surely have been affected. I believe, given the defense systems of that time, had the bomb detonated, there would be no Russia today.

Look for the shiny things of God revealed by the Holy Spirit. They only last for an instant but it is a Holy Instant. Let your soul absorb them.

[shropshire 0]

RonD1120

..there would be no Russia today.

Or America .. the whole planet would have been doomed by incompetence

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[masterrig 1]

shropshire

***..there would be no Russia today.

Or America .. the whole planet would have been doomed by incompetence

Keeps me nervous as to who's finger is on that 'big red button'!


Chuck

[rifleman 61]

Giles Prentice: A broken what?

Secretary Baird: Broken Arrow. It's a Class 4 Strategic Theatre Emergency. It's what we call it when we lose a nuclear weapon.

Giles Prentice: I don't know what's scarier, losing nuclear weapons, or that it happens so often there's actually a term for it.

Broken Arrow (1996)

Atheism is a Non-Prophet Organisation

[shropshire 0]

masterrig

******..there would be no Russia today.

Or America .. the whole planet would have been doomed by incompetence

Keeps me nervous as to who's finger is on that 'big red button'!


Chuck


Indeed mate and there are more fingers on more buttons each year

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[masterrig 1]

shropshire

*********..there would be no Russia today.

Or America .. the whole planet would have been doomed by incompetence

Keeps me nervous as to who's finger is on that 'big red button'!


Chuck


Indeed mate and there are more fingers on more buttons each year

Not good for feelings of security. They're like a bunch of gunslingers with itchy trigger fingers.


Chuck

[NewGuy2005 51]

shropshire

***..there would be no Russia today.

Or America .. the whole planet would have been doomed by incompetence

I don't think that risk is just in the past!

[muff528 3]

NewGuy2005

******..there would be no Russia today.

Or America .. the whole planet would have been doomed by incompetence

I don't think that risk is just in the past!

Anyone ever find the Tybee Island nuke (offshore Savannah)?

[Bertt 0]

Like I would tell you if I did. Can you imagine that turning up at a gun show?

You don't have to outrun the bear.

[kallend 1,648]

rifleman

Giles Prentice: A broken what?

Secretary Baird: Broken Arrow. It's a Class 4 Strategic Theatre Emergency. It's what we call it when we lose a nuclear weapon.

Giles Prentice: I don't know what's scarier, losing nuclear weapons, or that it happens so often there's actually a term for it.

Broken Arrow (1996)

very true.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.