Please note this does not mean the USSR wasn’t that way. Just want to clarify I’m not a tankie, lol.
The largest population of Marshallese people in the continental United States is in Springdale, Arkansas, just a short drive from where I live.
Why is there a large Marshallese population in Arkansas?
Well, you see, between 1946 - 1958, the US government detonated sixty-seven (yes, 67) nuclear weapons on the Marshall Islands, rendering dozens of the islands uninhabitable.
I suppose you could call it a “big whoops” except for the part a where they were fully aware of the dangers of radioactive fallout and just did it anyway.
Wholesome opossum lady isn’t a tankie?? Thank God.
Haha, my goal in life is to be called either an opossum lady or a bat lady. Smashing success!
Isn’t the US Air Force still missing like 5 bikes that they lost over the decades?
I could go over mk ultra and other fun little government projects but I guess people already got the point
I was wondering where those neighborhood kids got those air force bikes…
At least it was bikes and not nukes.
But speaking of nukes I don’t get why they didn’t continue the lie. If I was an asshole I sure as fuck would not let that go public.
It was 6 but one recently turned up
If Chernobyl had almost exploded and melted down, I wouldn’t blame the USSR for trying to hide it.
Turns out the USA has a long list of nuclear near miss and minor disasters, we just don’t like to talk about them. Well There’s Your Problem podcast just did a lengthy episode chronicling the more notable publicly-disclosed ones, including the ones in North Carolina. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqJR6kgwCio
Half my immediate family has cancer from undisclosed testing causing nuclear fallout over swaths of the southwest US…
US is run by assholes.
And you guys keep voting them in.
🌏 👨🚀 🔫 👨🚀
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.
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
If I recall, Chernobyl wasn’t actually a nuclear meltdown or explosion. It was a pressure vessel explosion.
Was not a nuclear explosion, sure, reactors can’t really explode in the same way as bombs, but it absolutely was a meltdown. Meltdown really just means that the fuel melted, which did happen shortly after the power peak flashed the coolant to steam and blew open the core.
Yep, just to add, it’s entirely possible to have a melt down without any explosion at all. As you said, It just means the fuel melted through the reactor vessel. It can even happen without the fuel going prompt-critical.
You know how you hear stories sometimes about shadowy government agencies converging on an area for no apparent reason, and then leaving just as fast as they came? People usually assume it’s aliens, but I wonder how many of those incidents have been stupid shit like this.
The army/airforce actively spread rumors of aliens to hide their activities.
Military term for this is “broken arrow”
It happens more than you would think mostly by the US but also Russia. Usually they find the things pretty fast but a few are just missing and at least one I remember was underwater somewhere it couldn’t safely be recovered so the area is patrolled.
Are you referring to bombs the Air Force accidentally dropped or the Navy losing nuke subs? Cause we’ve done both and no one has explained what happened to the USS Scorpion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sunken_nuclear_submarines
I’ve heard that term before, but I had no idea that this was what it referred to. Fascinating.
There’s a movie by the same name about an evil Baldwin brother recovering one to get… Something; i haven’t seen it in years.
Travolta and Slater as B2 pilots, it’s cheesy but still a great action flick
Probably all of those, because it’s really unlikely that aliens have come to earth and even less likely that an advanced civilization capable of interstellar travel, would ever get busted.
Agreed.
I think one of these armed hydrogen bombs they dropped on NC was never recovered. Someone said that online I didn’t read it in a publication so idk.
But there was an incident in Portugal, they sent in these service members to clean up this wreckage with no safety gear and they all died of cancer and the government denied it all. Also plutonium I believe.
Probably a lot
That explains so much about North Carolina.
~ngl, sometimes I kinda wish they had exploded a little bit.~
Feels like every time I end up in North Carolina or meet someone from there my conviction that humans are not inherently good or evil is challenged. I fucking hate North Carolina, with cause. It’s as if the turd rival team full of bullies in a sports movie was a state.
At least Mississippi and Alabama have the excuse of being economically depressed. And the people I’ve meet from those places are actually pleasant.
As a near-lifelong resident of the GrEaT state of North Carolina, you are spot on in your assessment.
Asking as a non-Southerner, what the hell is up with White people from the South? I keep hearing all about how great their hospitality is, but they’ve been (at least the most “Howdy, y’all” good old boys and belles) just culturally the most conniving and backstabbing petty Mean Girls. They’ll act sweet to your face, but you don’t even have to leave earshot before they start talking shit and starting small-town rumors. What, is it some kinda local pastime to start shit without saying it to somebody’s face?
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with North Carolina.
As long as you exclude North Carolina.
I know, I mean who hasn’t wanted to nuke North Carolina a little bit?
I joke, it’s actually pretty cool in the mountains.
For us not to qualify as a backwards ass country we’d also have to pretend that three mile island wasn’t one lucky accident away from doing just what Chernobyl did.
Yeah… the US track record is completely blank, nothing to see here. It’s a long episode but also pants shittingly terrifying…
Source? EdIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash
Both of the weapons began their firing sequences upon separation from the aircraft, despite safeguards meant to prevent that from occurring.
Continuing…
The other bomb did not get as far into its firing sequence, but became deeply embedded in a muddy field, and one of its major weapons components (the thermonuclear “secondary” stage) was regarded as irrecoverably lost after an extensive, failed effort to recover it.
Me: “IT’S STILL THERE?!?!”
Continuing…
In 1962, the landowner was paid $1,000 to grant the United States of America a perpetual 200-foot (61 m) radius circular easement over the remains of the buried second bomb.[56][57] The site of the easement, at 35°29′37″N 77°51′30″W, is visible as a disturbed area, and lies approximately 250 feet (76 m) north of an obvious circle of trees (and disused cemetery) in the middle of a plowed field visible on Google Earth.
Time for spicy pilgrimage!
$1,000 to grant the United States of America a perpetual 200-foot (61 m) radius circular easement
worst deal than selling Manhattan for some beeds.
Thermonuclear secondary stages, A.K.A. the “Fusion” portion don’t detonate unless the first stage has been propperly ignited. While Lithium Deuteride (the second stage fusion fuel) is not safe to handle (corrosive and explodes on contact with water) it’s not going to cause a blast comparable to even a fision bomb.
This also happened in South Carolina a few years earlier. Unsure when it was revealed to the public. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Mars_Bluff_B-47_nuclear_weapon_loss_incident
God damn the US has so many nukes it can lose them like coins in a sofa.
Holy shit, that close to Raleigh?! Most of the state would have been wiped off the map twice. Maybe parts of VA and/or SC!
Edit: Apparently it would have only taken out a few cities. Hollywood is wrong again!
Raleigh would have been fine. VA and SC would have heard the explosion but nothing worse. I checked it with a nuclear blast simulator. Even the Tsar Bomba would have killed less than 5% of the population of Raleigh.
“260 times the yield of the Hiroshima bomb” sounds impressive, but most of that energy is wasted heating the nearby air rather than increasing the blast radius. This is why modern nuclear weapons use cluster munitions with smaller yields.
Only “LeSs tHaN 5% oF tHe pOpULaTiOn”
The Tsar Bomba was the largest nuclear bomb ever detonated, so yeah, only less than 5%
deleted by creator
he has very polish name and surname
