sadbrownsfan Posted June 12, 2014 Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/12/us/north-carolina-nuclear-bomb-drop/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 In Jan of 1961, it was by pure luck the US didn't blow up half the state of N.C.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gftChris Posted June 12, 2014 Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 The B-52 was flying over North Carolina on January 24, 1961, when it suffered a "failure of the right wing," the report said. Fucking republicans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadbrownsfan Posted June 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 The blame would have fallen on Ike since JFK was only in office for 4 days before it happened. Though at the height of the cold war it could have been quickly blamed on the Russians to start a war.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gftChris Posted June 12, 2014 Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 So, yeah, sarcasm? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadbrownsfan Posted June 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 Partially, there have been a few wars that have started similarly(ie spanish-american war), and considering how high the tensions where at the time we could have been at war long before we realized it was our own fault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieHardBrownsFan Posted June 12, 2014 Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 You guys just knew about this now? Fucking kids.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gftChris Posted June 12, 2014 Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 I had heard of it before. I just wanted to make the joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieHardBrownsFan Posted June 12, 2014 Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 The blame would have fallen on Ike since JFK was only in office for 4 days before it happened. Though at the height of the cold war it could have been quickly blamed on the Russians to start a war.... Probably. I would have been dead at age 6, and you guys would never have been born. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadbrownsfan Posted June 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 You guys just knew about this now? Fucking kids.... While I have heard of other near misses, this is the first time for this one, and I am guessing probably one of the closest to actually almost happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gftChris Posted June 12, 2014 Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 I guess this is closer than 'almost pressing the button' situations, because this was just a fluke (and a statement about the quality of American nukes at that time?) that nothing happened Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairHooker11 Posted June 12, 2014 Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 I guess this is closer than 'almost pressing the button' situations, because this was just a fluke (and a statement about the quality of American nukes at that time?) that nothing happened id say by God's divine intervention. and before you doubt the "quality" of American technology - perhaps you guys should check the quality of your refrigerators.... the beer you drink there is piss warm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gftChris Posted June 12, 2014 Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 id say by God's divine intervention. and before you doubt the "quality" of American technology - perhaps you guys should check the quality of your refrigerators.... the beer you drink there is piss warm Jesus you're tetchy. Point was, what if that bomb had been dropped on a legitimate target and failed to detonate? Evidently, the bombs weren't reliable enough to explode 100% of the time in 1961. As for the divine intervention, I'll just leave that alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieHardBrownsFan Posted June 12, 2014 Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 I guess this is closer than 'almost pressing the button' situations, because this was just a fluke (and a statement about the quality of American nukes at that time?) that nothing happened I don't believe either one was actually armed at the time, as in when your going into bomb Cairo or Mecca. When nuclear weapons are moved over friendly territory they are never armed. (Or not supposed to be) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairHooker11 Posted June 12, 2014 Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 "In other words, both weapons came alarmingly close to detonating. Weapon 1, the bomb whose parachute opened, landed intact. Fortunately, the safing pins that provided power from a generator to the weapon had been yanked -- preventing it from going off. Weapon 2, the second bomb with the unopened parachute, landed in a free-fall. The impact of the crash put it in the "armed" setting. Fortunately -- once again -- it damaged another part of the bomb needed to initiate an explosion." maybe its just me then .... of course this is from CNN but I still maintain - Gods divine intervention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gftChris Posted June 12, 2014 Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 OK, I was under the impression that the only thing that stopped it detonating was a wiring problem: "By the slightest margin of chance, literally the failure of two wires to cross, a nuclear explosion was averted." If you want to believe it was divine intervention, then I'm not stopping you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westside Steve Posted June 12, 2014 Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 The blame would have fallen on Ike since JFK was only in office for 4 days before it happened. Though at the height of the cold war it could have been quickly blamed on the Russians to start a war.... Plus Jack was busy with Marilyn Monroe the bay of pigs and a bottle of Johnny Walker. WSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLD Woody Posted June 12, 2014 Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 God did it. God does everything. Can't explain something? Gawd Something crazy happens? Gawd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gftChris Posted June 12, 2014 Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 God did it. God does everything. Can't explain something? Gawd Something crazy happens? Gawd If Fair Hooker and other choose to believe that there was divine intervention stopping that, that there's some greater power looking over their lives, let them, there's no problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosar_For_President Posted June 12, 2014 Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 On my birthday (years later) and I live in NC, coincidence? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLD Woody Posted June 12, 2014 Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 I can't stop them. They can believe whatever they want. I'm just bored on a road trip to my new apartment in a new city. And at this time, I choose to mock the "divine intervention" statement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gftChris Posted June 12, 2014 Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 On my birthday (years later) and I live in NC, coincidence? Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieHardBrownsFan Posted June 12, 2014 Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 I can't stop them. They can believe whatever they want. I'm just bored on a road trip to my new apartment in a new city. And at this time, I choose to mock the "divine intervention" statement Texting and driving? Smart........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLD Woody Posted June 12, 2014 Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 I'm not driving Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieHardBrownsFan Posted June 12, 2014 Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 I'm not driving You in a car seat in the back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gftChris Posted June 12, 2014 Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 Texting and driving? Smart........ I'm not driving Or texting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLD Woody Posted June 12, 2014 Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 You in a car seat in the back? No Can you still go on road trips? Do your Depends hold up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieHardBrownsFan Posted June 12, 2014 Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 No Can you still go on road trips? Do your Depends hold up? I just fling them out the window, here comes one now....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calfoxwc Posted June 12, 2014 Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 It's what the left does, and that is woodpecker. Peck at anything and everything that he doesn't understand and doesn't agree with. Sad. He doesn't have much of a life to lean on, and nearly no experiences in life, so hate is his fallback, like a lot of others on the dumbass, bigoted left: http://foxnewsinsider.com/2014/06/11/government-union-wants-duck-dynasty-fans-fired http://foxnewsinsider.com/2014/05/06/todd-starnes-war-faith-has-spiraled-out-control-over-last-5-years http://foxnewsinsider.com/2014/03/11/air-force-academy-removes-bible-verse-cadets-whiteboard Anyways, in the early 70's, in the AF, those B-52's were old then. In 1961, it may have also been old. They were first manufactured in the early 50's. A couple of pilots were always offering me a ride on theirs. It was called "Thunder Turkey" because the parts that kept being made for the engines, weren't exactly the same as the old parts. I never did. The engines always sounded like they were going to blow up, and the aircraft aluminum skin was wavy. They just would laugh, and explain that the skin was stress streched over the years. It would have been on a weekend, anyways, and I nearly never stayed in town on weekends. So, that is an old story, But those big old planes were something to see, We'd walk right past them within 80 yds sometimes, on our way to work. At least it wasn't the old Thunder Turkey that fell apart that day. And, there is no protocol I can imagine, that would have really armed those bombs in peacetime, over the United States, or even N. America. I think that's nonsense. They may have been on the plane only for training flights, with that much weight on board or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gftChris Posted June 12, 2014 Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 I just fling them out the window, here comes one now....... I can just picture you being like this guy: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-27735086 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieHardBrownsFan Posted June 12, 2014 Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 He's got some nice babes with him..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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