Please note this does not mean the USSR wasn’t that way. Just want to clarify I’m not a tankie, lol.
You know how you hear stories sometimes about shadowy government agencies converging on an area for no apparent reason, and then leaving just as fast as they came? People usually assume it's aliens, but I wonder how many of those incidents have been stupid shit like this.
Source? EdIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash
Both of the weapons began their firing sequences upon separation from the aircraft, despite safeguards meant to prevent that from occurring.
Half my immediate family has cancer from undisclosed testing causing nuclear fallout over swaths of the southwest US..
US is run by assholes.
It would really only be comparable if they nuked north Carolina then tried to cover it up.
It’s not shocking that the military keeps classified that sort of thing, they’d have been hard pressed to keep an actual nuclear detonation classified/hidden 🤷♂️
For us not to qualify as a backwards ass country we'd also have to pretend that three mile island wasn't one lucky accident away from doing just what Chernobyl did.
Isn't the US Air Force still missing like 5 bikes that they lost over the decades?
I could go over mk ultra and other fun little government projects but I guess people already got the point
That explains so much about North Carolina.
ngl, sometimes I kinda wish they had exploded a little bit.
The largest population of Marshallese people in the continental United States is in Springdale, Arkansas, just a short drive from where I live.
Why is there a large Marshallese population in Arkansas?
Well, you see, between 1946 - 1958, the US government detonated sixty-seven (yes, 67) nuclear weapons on the Marshall Islands, rendering dozens of the islands uninhabitable.
I suppose you could call it a "big whoops" except for the part a where they were fully aware of the dangers of radioactive fallout and just did it anyway.
Turns out the USA has a long list of nuclear near miss and minor disasters, we just don't like to talk about them. Well There's Your Problem podcast just did a lengthy episode chronicling the more notable publicly-disclosed ones, including the ones in North Carolina. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqJR6kgwCio
same thing happened in Spain, they dropped a couple nukes and one actually detonated but I'm such a way it didn't trigger a nuclear explosion, just fill the area with highly radioactive material.
If Chernobyl had almost exploded and melted down, I wouldn't blame the USSR for trying to hide it.
Yeah... the US track record is completely blank, nothing to see here. It's a long episode but also pants shittingly terrifying...
Accidentally dropping a nuke is wild.
Also one of the cores was ever found and is still lost somewhere.
If I recall, Chernobyl wasn't actually a nuclear meltdown or explosion. It was a pressure vessel explosion.
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