B-52 bomber carrying 6 crashes off Guam. Luckily, earlier ineptitudes were not repeated, and "it's no big deal",
gravero...@yahoo.com
i am sure everyone remembers about that flight earlier this year, or
at the end of 2007, where there were US nuclear munitions aboard that
were enabled in nuclear mode. as the plane flew over the US.
Boy that would have been really deep shit if something bad had
happened on that trip (missiles fired by mistake, crash of the
aircraft, disaffected Americans firing on the plane from the ground,
another one of those "tragic friendly fire accidents" that have been
accounting for roughly 1/4 of all american military personnel deaths
in Iraq and Afghanistan, etc.). Yeah that really would have been
"tragic" wouldn't it have?
Blackwater
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>i am sure everyone remembers about that flight earlier this year, or
>at the end of 2007, where there were US nuclear munitions aboard that
>were enabled in nuclear mode. as the plane flew over the US.
Nuclear bombs do NOT explode if you crash the plane.
They'd be kinda useless if they were THAT touchy.
The plutonium spheres at the heart of modern fission
and fusion bombs are not 'spheres' - haven't been
since the early days.
The implosive charges around the 'sphere' thus have to
go off in a particular ORDER to compress the off-round
core symmetrically. If they all go off at once, or just
out-of-order, you don't get a proper nuclear explosion ;
just a 'fizz' at best.
It's an important safety/security feature. It's also
why nobody can just steal a bomb and set it off ... the
electronic security code programs the detonator 'brain'
to time the implosive charges so they match the needs of
the particular bomb core. You can't even swap-out 'brains',
because cause every core is intentionally made a little
different.
Terrorists would have to remove the plutonium and cast an
entirely new core. Indeed, since they couldn't match western
tech, they'd probably need the plutonium from TWO bombs just
to create one low-tech core of their own.
So, we're double-safe. For once, the engineers thought ahead.
The main danger of a serious crash involving nuclear weapons
is that metallic plutonium might get smashed out of a device.
It would badly contaminate the area - but only the immediate
area. However, since this would involve a B-52 falling on
your house, I'd think the plutonium would be the least of
your worries ....
American Patriot
> On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:53:51 -0700 (PDT), graverobber...@yahoo.com
sure was a BIG brouhaha about it when it happened though.... if it WAS
so safe, and the only way the nuclear missiles could go off was if for
them to be fired then we were safe all along, right? except if they
"friendly fired" us, and we know they would never do that, right?
it's only 1/4 of the US military dead in Iraq that have died as a
result of friendly fire. yeah, we're totally safe.......
harry k
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The uproar was not over the safety, the uproar was over them being on
a flight where they weren't supposed to be. But don't let reality get
in the way of your imagination..
Harry K
gravero...@yahoo.com
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nor your need of a colonic