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North Carolina Came Close to a Nuke Attack
Military.com ^ | June 14, 2014 | Matt Brawell

Posted on 06/17/2014 8:39:43 PM PDT by QT3.14

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Close call!
1 posted on 06/17/2014 8:39:43 PM PDT by QT3.14
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To: QT3.14

Evidently so.


2 posted on 06/17/2014 8:41:38 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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I wonder what the yield on that sucker was…?

This was ‘61 so that was a real monster, I’d wager….


3 posted on 06/17/2014 8:43:05 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: QT3.14

Attack? How about accident?


4 posted on 06/17/2014 8:43:23 PM PDT by QT3.14
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To: gaijin
From the article:

"Weapon 2" was an armed 3.8 megaton nuclear bomb. By comparison, the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that devastated Japan for over a generation weighed .03 megatons combined. If "Weapon 2" had detonated, the fallout would have been 190 times worse than the explosions that ended the World War II.

5 posted on 06/17/2014 8:44:55 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin

Read the article.


6 posted on 06/17/2014 8:44:59 PM PDT by QT3.14
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Fascinating. I’ve never read this on FR before, except for the other 1213 times that it was posted in the last few months. LOL! :)


7 posted on 06/17/2014 8:45:19 PM PDT by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: gaijin

“Weapon 2” was an armed 3.8 megaton nuclear bomb. By comparison, the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that devastated Japan for over a generation weighed .03 megatons combined. If “Weapon 2” had detonated, the fallout would have been 190 times worse than the explosions that ended the World War II.”


8 posted on 06/17/2014 8:46:08 PM PDT by Pelham (California, what happens when you won't deport illegals)
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I thought that was South Carolina...
9 posted on 06/17/2014 8:47:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: QT3.14
January 21, 1961

Though I'm not a big JFK fan (except for the tax cuts:), I'll concede it must have been less than pleasant to have to deal with this during his first full day in office.

10 posted on 06/17/2014 8:47:40 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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190 times worse than Hiroshima???? Zoinks!

I would have been 1 or 2 - just down the road in Raleigh. This is one of those “things that make you go hmmm”


11 posted on 06/17/2014 8:48:17 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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In 1956 they did a blast of a 3.8 MT and here is what they photoed:


12 posted on 06/17/2014 8:49:23 PM PDT by gaijin
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Read the posts, horse’s ass.


13 posted on 06/17/2014 8:50:26 PM PDT by gaijin
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1961. Wow. That’s just.........zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz


14 posted on 06/17/2014 8:51:41 PM PDT by DManA
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There was a 4 second diff in our posts moron.


15 posted on 06/17/2014 8:55:07 PM PDT by QT3.14
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Dude, that was like 53 years ago.


16 posted on 06/17/2014 8:57:00 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Goes to show how much God loves NC> and you.


17 posted on 06/17/2014 8:57:17 PM PDT by Kackikat
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To: QT3.14

My smell detector is calling BS on this STORY.


18 posted on 06/17/2014 9:01:51 PM PDT by AlexW
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What people today fail to appreciate is how hard SAC pushed itself in those days. In ‘61 we lost an average of one B-52 a month, -in training-.

Two days before this incident another B-52 “Felon 22” broke up and went down over a remote area in southeast Utah. It was January 19th, 1961. An airman who was able to bail out and made it to the ground, gathered his parachute around him to try to protect himself from the bitter cold. He froze to death shortly before the rescuers located him.

As he laid freezing under that tree in a wasteland, JFK gave his inaugural speech in DC. This is the “pay any price, bear any burden, meet any challenge,,,,, Ask not what your country can do for you speech”.

The next day this one went down over North Carolina. Today in the USAF crashes are more rare than ever. But in those days, they were out there over the edge, pushing the limits of men and machines. SAC was a national hero, and is sorely missed today.


19 posted on 06/17/2014 9:08:41 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: BenLurkin

The S.Carolina accident was a few years earlier. From Wikipedia:

# March 11, 1958 – Mars Bluff, South Carolina, USA – Non-nuclear detonation of a nuclear bomb

* A USAF B-47 bomber flying from Hunter Air Force Base in Savannah, Georgia accidentally released an atomic bomb. A home was destroyed and several people injured but the bomb’s plutonium core did not explode.


20 posted on 06/17/2014 9:14:47 PM PDT by jttpwalsh
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