re: The 3 megaton h-bomb that almost detonated over North Carolina.

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While this is the immediate threat, what about the sequence of events that would have happened? Immediately the country would have thought we were under nuclear attack: In the initial confusion, would the truth about an accident have made it to the President? Would we go to DEFCON 1, and would the Soviets react? The panic in the streets would cause almost certain riots. There are so many stories about near misses, we are lucky nothing ever popped off.

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100%

But the mouthbreathers here living in Bumfrick, LA, drooling over the thought of millions of east coast Americans dead can't process those ramifications.

There is a picture of the bomb hanging in a tree.


Mississippi had an underground nuclear test shot.



Nuclear test Mississippi Wiki


Salmon Site is a 1,470-acre (5.9 km2) tract of land in Lamar County, Mississippi, near Baxterville. The tract is located over a geological formation known as the Tatum Salt Dome and is the location of the only nuclear weapons test detonations known to have been performed in the eastern United States.[1][2]

Two underground detonations, a joint effort of the US Atomic Energy Commission and the US Department of Defense, took place under the designation of Project Dribble, part of a larger program known as Vela Uniform (aimed at assessing remote detonation detection capabilities). The first test, known as the Salmon Event, took place on October 22, 1964.[2] It involved detonation of a 5.3 kiloton device at a depth of 2,700 feet (820 m).[3] The second test, known as the Sterling Event, took place on December 3, 1966 and involved detonation of a 380-ton device suspended in the cavity left by the previous test.[2] Further non-nuclear explosive tests were later conducted in the remaining cavity as part of the related Project Miracle Play.

In October 2006, responsibility for the site was transferred to the US Department of Energy's Office of Legacy Management. A plaque mounted on a short stone pillar marks the site.

On Wednesday, December 15, 2010, the United States Department of Energy transferred the Salmon Site, or Tatum Salt Dome as it's more commonly known, back to the state of Mississippi. Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann said in a press release that the majority of the 1,470 acres (590 ha) will be used for timber but an undetermined portion will be open for public access. Access to the Salmon Site had previously been restricted and monitored by the federal government since the tests were first conducted in 1964 and 1966.

A granite monument surrounded by test wells marks the site of the nuclear bomb tests, in a clearing surrounded by a Mississippi state timber preserve. [2]


The shot near Winnfield was non-nuclear. They used high explosives.

M.A.D. - Mutual Assured Destruction.

That is the ONLY deterent that is keeping mankind from blowing species (including homo sapiens) off the face of the earth.

Now contemplate this. As far as the United States is concerned, the nuclear phone and code is now within reach of a man with identifiable cognitive decline.

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Such a blast could kill everyone and everything within a diameter of about 17 miles — roughly the area inside the Washington, DC, beltway.

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Don’t tease us.

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I’m imagining you as one of those morbidly obese clowns with a closet full of guns, no vault, that chuckled and embraced being called a deplorable all while farting cheeto dust into your lay-z-boy

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I guess you can’t handle a bit of morbid humor about how awful the federal government is, huh?


Leave some boot for the rest of us

There is still a nuke buried in the mud off the Carolina coast that was never found from that accident. The bomb that came close to arming would have not detonated with significant yield. Many of the components needed to initiate thermonuclear fusion were damaged in the accident. Worst case would have been a “fizzle” or very low level nuclear reaction, or a just the high explosives detonating scattering the nuclear material.

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I’m imagining you as one of those morbidly obese clowns with a closet full of guns, no vault, that chuckled and embraced being called a deplorable all while farting cheeto dust into your lay-z-boy.

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Chill out numbnuts, you're going to have a stroke at this rate.

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The panic in the streets would cause almost certain riots.

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If they're mostly peaceful, no big deal

Are hydrogen (whatever they're called and how they were different) bombs still working by slamming two halves together?