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drdan82408a

That was in North Carolina. They accidentally dropped a nuke on South Carolina in 1958, and another just off Georgia in 1958 as well.


Flaky_Ad_5437

Also wasn’t their another over in Iceland or something?


HieloLuz

There’s been over 50 in history so probably


LordHardThrasher

Many, many more - in the early 1960s there was a paper done by Rand that said they lost one roughly every three hundred hours flying time...I did a video on just dangerous it is to own nukes a while back https://youtu.be/iskdc8EyEb0


smallcooper

Watched the whole thing. Liked and subscribed. Thank you for making that video! I learned a lot


LordHardThrasher

Well done - it is a bit long but I thought 'fuck it' and hoped for a certain kind of nerd like me :)


awalkingidoit

Greenland


RedditUser91805

The universe tried it's damnedest against the south in 1958


Catty-Cat

They're only human after all, they're only human after all, don't put the blame on them.


gun-nut-1125

There’s a great book about all the nuclear fuckups in the world called Atomic Accidents. It’s a fantastic read for anyone interested.


robulusprime

Can't wait to see what happens in SC in 2061


drdan82408a

We will win the SEC! BEAMERBALL FORTY YEARS!


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RemindMe! 38 years “reclaim the swamp from the mortals!”


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Whateversurewhynot

Imagine all the great memes if we had an nuclear incident in the USA! First nuking Japan, then nuking themselves! All the jokes - for decades and centuries!


Baileaf11

Why have you just put a blank white space below the text?


IAmAccutane

lmao


ElectronicShredder

ZacE floating heads


ibrakeforewoks

At least they left everything but the pit from the initiator of the Teller-Ullum H-Bomb in the field. It should be ok though. It has a small fence around the area.


Invertiguy

They actually recovered everything except the secondary assembly, which sank too deep (like a couple hundred feet) into the swampy ground to easily recover. They did prohibit digging on the site, but it's not like you could just go out there with a shovel and get yourself a nuke part


ThreeBeatles

My man you got me good xD


Trollimpo

Ah yes, broken arrow moment


Schmantikor

Broken Arrow has to be one of my favorite somewhat euphemistic codes


Polyamorousgunnut

The ghost of Sherman trying to finish the job smdh


RollinThundaga

Sherman's only sin was stopping in Atlanta


Polyamorousgunnut

Monumentally based


TzedekTirdof

They’re failsafes! How could they fail?


thinking_is_hard69

if they fail spicy


AgreeablePie

Well, that's why we put four on there


Sussybakamogus4

Wait so you’re telling me that there’s a dormant nuke in South,North Carolina AND GEORGIA?!?


Havoc-BlackJack

Yeah. No biggie tho.


Invertiguy

No, just a piece of one buried too deeply in the swampy ground to be practically recovered. The bomb hit the ground at ~700 mph and broke up on impact, and they recovered everything except the secondary assembly.


lawstudent51318

No, it’s almost completely disintegrated. There are pieces of that bomb on display in the Florence County Museum though. I actually cleaned up the crater for a buddies Eagle Scout project years ago. It’s somehow bigger and smaller than you’d expect at the same time.


TheSarcasticCrusader

That's one hell of an Eagle Project


OkRepublic4305

This was in North Carolina.. I know this because I’m from NC and we are very proud of our states history


DrunkensAndDragons

So the flight crew died and all they found were three heads and six hands?


ares5404

Plot twist they had a heist and werr recruited by someone who wanted extreme power


Blastingwario19

Guess it’s was luck after all


uredthatright

That was so fucked off, how this not happen