Please note this does not mean the USSR wasn’t that way. Just want to clarify I’m not a tankie, lol.
You know how you hear stories sometimes about shadowy government agencies converging on an area for no apparent reason, and then leaving just as fast as they came? People usually assume it's aliens, but I wonder how many of those incidents have been stupid shit like this.
The army/airforce actively spread rumors of aliens to hide their activities.
Military term for this is "broken arrow"
It happens more than you would think mostly by the US but also Russia. Usually they find the things pretty fast but a few are just missing and at least one I remember was underwater somewhere it couldn't safely be recovered so the area is patrolled.
Are you referring to bombs the Air Force accidentally dropped or the Navy losing nuke subs? Cause we’ve done both and no one has explained what happened to the USS Scorpion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sunken_nuclear_submarines
The largest population of Marshallese people in the continental United States is in Springdale, Arkansas, just a short drive from where I live.
Why is there a large Marshallese population in Arkansas?
Well, you see, between 1946 - 1958, the US government detonated sixty-seven (yes, 67) nuclear weapons on the Marshall Islands, rendering dozens of the islands uninhabitable.
I suppose you could call it a "big whoops" except for the part a where they were fully aware of the dangers of radioactive fallout and just did it anyway.
tf didn't they drop nukes in arkansas instead? i'd rather live in the Marshall Islands
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.
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
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.
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.
Time for spicy pilgrimage!
Half my immediate family has cancer from undisclosed testing causing nuclear fallout over swaths of the southwest US..
US is run by assholes.
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And you guys keep voting them in.
Well, sorta. Most of us fail to participate at all in voting, mainly cause we know the system is fucked and nigh impossible to "fix from within", but also have no clear idea what could be done. Other than the obvious, but not many are eager to face death, obviously...
If Chernobyl had almost exploded and melted down, I wouldn't blame the USSR for trying to hide it.
Also one of the cores was ever found and is still lost somewhere.
Isn't the US Air Force still missing like 5 bikes that they lost over the decades?
I could go over mk ultra and other fun little government projects but I guess people already got the point
At least it was bikes and not nukes.
But speaking of nukes I don't get why they didn't continue the lie. If I was an asshole I sure as fuck would not let that go public.
It was 6 but one recently turned up
It would really only be comparable if they nuked north Carolina then tried to cover it up.
It’s not shocking that the military keeps classified that sort of thing, they’d have been hard pressed to keep an actual nuclear detonation classified/hidden 🤷♂️
Turns out the USA has a long list of nuclear near miss and minor disasters, we just don't like to talk about them. Well There's Your Problem podcast just did a lengthy episode chronicling the more notable publicly-disclosed ones, including the ones in North Carolina. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqJR6kgwCio
Accidentally dropping a nuke is wild.
It wasn't even the only time. They also accidentally dropped 4 more nukes in Spain, 3 of them over land. And the bombs actually detonated (but failed to trigger a nuclear explosion), spreading radioactive material around.
If I recall, Chernobyl wasn't actually a nuclear meltdown or explosion. It was a pressure vessel explosion.
You are correct, it was a rapid increase in heat that blew the lid and spread radioactive material everywhere, but the was no nuclear detonation.
Was not a nuclear explosion, sure, reactors can't really explode in the same way as bombs, but it absolutely was a meltdown. Meltdown really just means that the fuel melted, which did happen shortly after the power peak flashed the coolant to steam and blew open the core.
Yep, just to add, it's entirely possible to have a melt down without any explosion at all. As you said, It just means the fuel melted through the reactor vessel. It can even happen without the fuel going prompt-critical.
Wholesome opossum lady isn't a tankie?? Thank God.
Haha, my goal in life is to be called either an opossum lady or a bat lady. Smashing success!
Yeah... the US track record is completely blank, nothing to see here. It's a long episode but also pants shittingly terrifying...
That explains so much about North Carolina.
~ngl, sometimes I kinda wish they had exploded a little bit.~
For us not to qualify as a backwards ass country we'd also have to pretend that three mile island wasn't one lucky accident away from doing just what Chernobyl did.
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