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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Um, there were actually several instances of "woops we dropped a bomb".
Until the invention of the ICBM, there were planes carrying nukes in the air 24/7.
It's only thanks to luck that none of them exploded, as the safety systems in place today were not added until the 60s when Kennedy learned how American nukes were being handled and freaked the fuck out about it all. Justifiably so.
The Air Force had been in charge before that and fought relentlessly against adding any safety systems at all.
Ok. But not this instance … which is my point.