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2021-10-03 -Short Attention Span Theater-

How the US Air Force dropped ATOMIC BOMB on South Carolina family's backyard, with TNT detonator leaving 50 foot crater after B-47 navigator unwittingly pulled plane's emergency release handle

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-10-03 13:40|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Well, better a 50 ft crater than the bomb being armed and it going BOOM! instead of pop!

Posted by Silentbrick 2021-10-03 15:54|| 2021-10-03 15:54|| Front Page Top

#2

If you dig a little. You will also find.

On Feb. 5, 1958, a B-47 bomber dropped a 7,000-pound nuclear bomb into the waters off Tybee Island, Ga., after it collided with another Air Force jet.

The bomb -- which has unknown quantities of radioactive material -- has never been found.

Posted by NN2N1 2021-10-03 17:11|| 2021-10-03 17:11|| Front Page Top

#3 ...Some years ago, I made a recon of the Mars Bluff impact site.

Of course I got pics, but the 'Burg's algorithms are telling me they're too big.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-10-03 17:26|| 2021-10-03 17:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Seems to be systemic problem -

May 22, 1957- A B-36 aircraft (52-2816) of the 334th Bombardment Squadron, 95th Bombardment Wing, was transporting a Mark 17 ten-megaton hydrogen bomb from Biggs AFB, Texas to Kirkland AFB, New Mexico. As the aircraft was on approach to Kirkland and over Albuquerque, New Mexico, the thermonuclear device, weighing 42,000 pounds, dropped from the bomber just 4 miles south of Albuquerque.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-10-03 17:41|| 2021-10-03 17:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Then you get the Titan that exploded in its silo in Arkansas in 1980. The explosion blew the 740-ton silo door away from the silo and ejected the second stage and warhead. Once clear of the silo, the second stage exploded. The W53 warhead landed about 100 feet from the launch complex's entry gate; its safety features prevented any loss of radioactive material or nuclear detonation.

Our devices have always been fairly predictable in bad situations.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-10-03 18:13|| 2021-10-03 18:13|| Front Page Top

#6 And let us not forget Palomares.

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2021-10-03 20:16|| 2021-10-03 20:16|| Front Page Top

#7 https://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/blog/western-pennsylvania-history/mystery-of-pittsburghs-ghost-b-25-bomber

Posted by Airandee 2021-10-03 21:41|| 2021-10-03 21:41|| Front Page Top

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