Please note this does not mean the USSR wasn’t that way. Just want to clarify I’m not a tankie, lol.

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[–] 7 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

There was a plane crash. It wasn’t some “whoops we dropped ze bombs” situation.

There were catastrophic failures but still failsafes prevented the disaster.

These events aren’t comparable at all.

Three mile island is much more comparable.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Um, there were actually several instances of "woops we dropped a bomb".

    Until the invention of the ICBM, there were planes carrying nukes in the air 24/7.

    It's only thanks to luck that none of them exploded, as the safety systems in place today were not added until the 60s when Kennedy learned how American nukes were being handled and freaked the fuck out about it all. Justifiably so.

    The Air Force had been in charge before that and fought relentlessly against adding any safety systems at all.

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