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Please note this does not mean the USSR wasn’t that way. Just want to clarify I’m not a tankie, lol.

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[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 79 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] coalie@piefed.zip 56 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

God damn the US has so many nukes it can lose them like coins in a sofa.

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 14 points 22 hours ago

Time for spicy pilgrimage!

Satellite image of the easement

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago

$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.

[–] VictorPrincipum@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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!

[–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.