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minus-squareramenshaman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·2 months agoAccidentally dropping a nuke is wild.
minus-squareblack0ut@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up19·2 months agoIt wasn’t even the only time. They also accidentally dropped 4 more nukes in Spain, 3 of them over land. And the bombs actually detonated (but failed to trigger a nuclear explosion), spreading radioactive material around. 1966 Palomares Accident
minus-squareinfinitesunrise@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·2 months agoAnd we’ve done it several times. On domestic soil.
minus-squareThe D Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months agothey’re called Broken Arrow incedents
minus-squarePhoenixz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 months agoAnd of course there is a cool sounding name for a terrible fuck up
minus-squaremadasi@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 months agoThere’s a whole list of codenames for different scenarios - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_nuclear_incident_terminology
Accidentally dropping a nuke is wild.
It wasn’t even the only time. They also accidentally dropped 4 more nukes in Spain, 3 of them over land. And the bombs actually detonated (but failed to trigger a nuclear explosion), spreading radioactive material around.
1966 Palomares Accident
JFC
And we’ve done it several times. On domestic soil.
they’re called Broken Arrow incedents
And of course there is a cool sounding name for a terrible fuck up
There’s a whole list of codenames for different scenarios - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_nuclear_incident_terminology