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re: Time We Nearly Nuked Arkansas.. calling all history buffs
Posted on 7/17/16 at 12:16 am to TigerTalker16
Posted on 7/17/16 at 12:16 am to TigerTalker16
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If it was Mississippi, I would believe it.
Two atomic bombs were actually detonated in the Tatum salt dome under Lamar county Mississippi in 1964,and 1966.
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"At 10:00 a.m. on October 22, 1964, the United States government detonated an underground nuclear device in Lamar County, in south Mississippi. Residents there felt three separate shocks, and watched as the soil rose and behaved like ocean waves. Hunting dogs howled in terror, and two miles from the test site the blast shook pecans off the pecan trees. This nuclear test, and the one that followed two years later at the same Mississippi site, were the only nuclear explosions on U.S. soil east of the Rocky Mountain states."
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Posted on 7/17/16 at 12:40 am to terriblegreen
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I didn't read all of the responses so I'm sure someone pointed out the weapon has to be armed. We dropped a nuke on Palomares Spain too, but it wasn't armed. To set off a nuke, you really have to want to set it off.
There is also the nuke that was lost off the coast of Georgia in 1957, the closest we came to detonation was in 1961 at Goldsboro, North Carolina when a B52 exploded in mid air due to a fuel tank leak. Two 20 megaton nukes fell from the plane, detonation was prevented by only one remaining safety interlock, the other 5 were engaged from the force of the impact. Since that event and a few others additional safety measures were developed to prevent unintentional detonation. The warhead in Arkansas would not have detonated as part of its onboard failsafe mechanisms are environmental sensors that require the warhead to sense that it has accelerated at a defined rate to a particular altitude then be in decent to a certain altitude before it cam arm. All of these safety measures are called PALs for "Permissive Action Link". Other than those used by the Navy, all nukes incorporate very complex systems to prevent un-authorized arming.
Posted on 7/17/16 at 8:09 am to munchman
Yeah, you baws can make fun of Arkansas all you want. Just means there will be less people up there when I retire to my place in the Ozarks. Thanks!
Posted on 7/17/16 at 8:40 am to EA6B
Posted on 7/17/16 at 9:27 am to WhuckFistle
Grew up in LA and live in AR. Would NEVER go back. Louisiana can keep all that culcha. I'll stay here where little white memaws make my burgers at BK, they always have ketchup, and the ice cream machine always works.
Posted on 7/17/16 at 9:35 am to Arkapigdiesel
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I've never in my life seen more tattoos and cigarette smoking people living in trailers in all of my life.
Do tell.
Posted on 7/17/16 at 10:02 am to BillyBobfan24_7
This list makes me surprised that no bigger flubs occurred, especially in the 50s when they were still figuring it out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accidents
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accidents
Posted on 7/17/16 at 10:14 am to rmnldr
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Big mistake that we didn't
The amount of upvotes this got makes me
Posted on 7/17/16 at 10:18 am to WhuckFistle
If a detonation was all it took for an atomic bomb to work, African nations would be holding the world hostage more often than North Korea hold SE Asia.
Wankers.
Posted on 7/17/16 at 10:20 am to WhuckFistle
I read that book. It's pretty fascinating.
Posted on 7/17/16 at 10:30 am to cgrand
Oklahoma would have been a much better choice. Has zero redeeming qualities
Posted on 7/17/16 at 10:48 am to WhuckFistle
I remember that incident. I was living in L.R. at the time. The warhead was not armed, however, it was an extremely tense moment.
This post was edited on 7/17/16 at 10:51 am
Posted on 7/17/16 at 11:13 am to Porky
The missile had been removed from the Greenbrier site by the time I moved here. However, I was outside doing yard work when the government imploded the silo. One helluva noise with some ground shaking going on.
Posted on 7/17/16 at 11:20 am to WhuckFistle
North Carolina and Georgia were almost nuked as well.
....and we actually did nuke Mississippi twice.
....and we actually did nuke Mississippi twice.
Posted on 7/17/16 at 11:21 am to LSUBFA83
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Yeah, you baws can make fun of Arkansas all you want. Just means there will be less people up there when I retire to my place in the Ozarks. Thanks!
similar to my retirement plans of a houseboat on lake Ouachita. Ahh slice of heaven. Arkanasas has lots of nice lakes.
Posted on 7/17/16 at 11:37 am to WhuckFistle
Command and Control is a great book. 700 ton silo doors don't go flying through the air very often
This post was edited on 7/17/16 at 11:40 am
Posted on 7/17/16 at 11:45 am to WhuckFistle
Posted on 7/17/16 at 12:12 pm to WhuckFistle
Considering how many chopsticks training missions there were its amazing more nuke mishaps didn't happen
Posted on 7/17/16 at 12:40 pm to blueslover
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This list makes me surprised that no bigger flubs occurred, especially in the 50s when they were still figuring it out.
shite I grew up in LC and never knew about this.
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November 26, 1958 – Chennault Air Force Base, Louisiana, USA – Non-nuclear detonation of a nuclear bomb A USAF B-47 bomber with a nuclear weapon on board developed a fire while on the ground. The aircraft wreckage and the site of the accident were contaminated after a limited explosion of non-nuclear material.[32]
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