DanISSELisdaman
09-20-2013, 05:00 PM
I don't know if this is true or not, but if so, it would have been devastation like no one has ever seen.
Newly Released Secret Document Reveals That NC Was Just
One Simple Circuit Away From Being Nuked With 4 MT Bomb
Posted By: Watchman
Date:
Friday, 20-Sep-2013 14:33:45
A secret document,
published in declassified form for the first time by the Guardian today,
reveals that the US Air Force came dramatically close to detonating an atom
bomb over North Carolina that would have been 260 times more powerful than the
device that devastated Hiroshima.
The document, obtained by
the investigative journalist Eric Schlosser under the Freedom of Information
Act, gives the first conclusive evidence that the US was narrowly spared a
disaster of monumental proportions when two Mark 39 hydrogen bombs were
accidentally dropped over Goldsboro, North Carolina on 23 January 1961. The
bombs fell to earth after a B-52 bomber broke up in mid-air, and one of the
devices behaved precisely as a nuclear weapon was designed to behave in
warfare: its parachute opened, its trigger mechanisms engaged, and only one
low-voltage switch prevented untold carnage.
Each bomb carried a
payload of 4 megatons – the equivalent of 4 million tons of TNT explosive. Had
the device detonated, lethal fallout could have been deposited over Washington,
Baltimore, Philadelphia and as far north as New York city – putting millions of
lives at risk.
Though there has been
persistent speculation about how narrow the Goldsboro escape was, the US
government has repeatedly publicly denied that its nuclear arsenal has ever put
Americans’ lives in jeopardy through safety flaws. But in the newly-published
document, a senior engineer in the Sandia national laboratories responsible for
the mechanical safety of nuclear weapons concludes that “one simple,
dynamo-technology, low voltage switch stood between the United States and a
major catastrophe”.
Writing eight years after
the accident, Parker F Jones found that the bombs that dropped over North
Carolina, just three days after John F Kennedy made his inaugural address as
president, were inadequate in their safety controls and that the final switch
that prevented disaster could easily have been shorted by an electrical jolt,
leading to a nuclear burst. “It would have been bad news – in
spades,” he wrote.
Jones dryly entitled his
secret report “Goldsboro Revisited or: How I learned to Mistrust the
H-Bomb” – a quip on Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 satirical film about nuclear
holocaust, Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
The accident happened
when a B-52 bomber got into trouble, having embarked from Seymour Johnson Air
Force base in Goldsboro for a routine flight along the East Coast. As it went
into a tailspin, the hydrogen bombs it was carrying became separated. One fell
into a field near Faro, North Carolina, its parachute draped in the branches of
a tree; the other plummeted into a meadow off Big Daddy’s Road.
Jones found that of the
four safety mechanisms in the Faro bomb, designed to prevent unintended
detonation, three failed to operate properly. When the bomb hit the ground, a
firing signal was sent to the nuclear core of the device, and it was only that
final, highly vulnerable switch that averted calamity. “The MK 39 Mod 2
bomb did not possess adequate safety for the airborne alert role in the
B-52,” Jones concludes.
The document was
uncovered by Schlosser as part of his research into his new book on the nuclear
arms race, Command and Control. Using freedom of information, he discovered
that at least 700 “significant” accidents and incidents involving
1,250 nuclear weapons were recorded between 1950 and 1968 alone.
“The US government
has consistently tried to withhold information from the American people in
order to prevent questions being asked about our nuclear weapons policy,”
he said. “We were told there was no possibility of these weapons
accidentally detonating, yet here’s one that very nearly did.”
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/20/usaf-atomic-bomb-north-carolina-1961
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Newly Released Secret Document Reveals That NC Was Just
One Simple Circuit Away From Being Nuked With 4 MT Bomb
Posted By: Watchman
Date:
Friday, 20-Sep-2013 14:33:45
A secret document,
published in declassified form for the first time by the Guardian today,
reveals that the US Air Force came dramatically close to detonating an atom
bomb over North Carolina that would have been 260 times more powerful than the
device that devastated Hiroshima.
The document, obtained by
the investigative journalist Eric Schlosser under the Freedom of Information
Act, gives the first conclusive evidence that the US was narrowly spared a
disaster of monumental proportions when two Mark 39 hydrogen bombs were
accidentally dropped over Goldsboro, North Carolina on 23 January 1961. The
bombs fell to earth after a B-52 bomber broke up in mid-air, and one of the
devices behaved precisely as a nuclear weapon was designed to behave in
warfare: its parachute opened, its trigger mechanisms engaged, and only one
low-voltage switch prevented untold carnage.
Each bomb carried a
payload of 4 megatons – the equivalent of 4 million tons of TNT explosive. Had
the device detonated, lethal fallout could have been deposited over Washington,
Baltimore, Philadelphia and as far north as New York city – putting millions of
lives at risk.
Though there has been
persistent speculation about how narrow the Goldsboro escape was, the US
government has repeatedly publicly denied that its nuclear arsenal has ever put
Americans’ lives in jeopardy through safety flaws. But in the newly-published
document, a senior engineer in the Sandia national laboratories responsible for
the mechanical safety of nuclear weapons concludes that “one simple,
dynamo-technology, low voltage switch stood between the United States and a
major catastrophe”.
Writing eight years after
the accident, Parker F Jones found that the bombs that dropped over North
Carolina, just three days after John F Kennedy made his inaugural address as
president, were inadequate in their safety controls and that the final switch
that prevented disaster could easily have been shorted by an electrical jolt,
leading to a nuclear burst. “It would have been bad news – in
spades,” he wrote.
Jones dryly entitled his
secret report “Goldsboro Revisited or: How I learned to Mistrust the
H-Bomb” – a quip on Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 satirical film about nuclear
holocaust, Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
The accident happened
when a B-52 bomber got into trouble, having embarked from Seymour Johnson Air
Force base in Goldsboro for a routine flight along the East Coast. As it went
into a tailspin, the hydrogen bombs it was carrying became separated. One fell
into a field near Faro, North Carolina, its parachute draped in the branches of
a tree; the other plummeted into a meadow off Big Daddy’s Road.
Jones found that of the
four safety mechanisms in the Faro bomb, designed to prevent unintended
detonation, three failed to operate properly. When the bomb hit the ground, a
firing signal was sent to the nuclear core of the device, and it was only that
final, highly vulnerable switch that averted calamity. “The MK 39 Mod 2
bomb did not possess adequate safety for the airborne alert role in the
B-52,” Jones concludes.
The document was
uncovered by Schlosser as part of his research into his new book on the nuclear
arms race, Command and Control. Using freedom of information, he discovered
that at least 700 “significant” accidents and incidents involving
1,250 nuclear weapons were recorded between 1950 and 1968 alone.
“The US government
has consistently tried to withhold information from the American people in
order to prevent questions being asked about our nuclear weapons policy,”
he said. “We were told there was no possibility of these weapons
accidentally detonating, yet here’s one that very nearly did.”
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/20/usaf-atomic-bomb-north-carolina-1961
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