By now I suppose you’ve all seen the news. Don’t know how your news outlet of choice is covering this, but personally I found this coverage… well, I guess there really are no words for it…
You can also watch it on their site:
How the U.S. Narrowly Avoided a Nuclear Holocaust 33 Years Ago, and Still Risks Catastrophe Today | Democracy Now!
Here they also offer this segment, as well as everything else they do as:
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And there’s also this:
US nearly detonated atomic bomb over North Carolina - secret document | World news | The Guardian
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A qoute:
You can also watch it on their site:
How the U.S. Narrowly Avoided a Nuclear Holocaust 33 Years Ago, and Still Risks Catastrophe Today | Democracy Now!
Here they also offer this segment, as well as everything else they do as:
Transcript, audio, mp3 Download, MPEG-4 Video Download, MPEG-4 Video Torrent (and more).
And there’s also this:
US nearly detonated atomic bomb over North Carolina - secret document | World news | The Guardian
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A qoute:
AMY GOODMAN: Tell us some of those accidents, some of those near misses and how things are being handled today.
ERIC SCHLOSSER: Yeah, I mean, one of the most significant near misses occurred just three days after John F. Kennedy was inaugurated. A B-52 bomber broke apart in the sky over North Carolina, and as it was breaking apart, the centrifugal forces affecting the plane pulled a lanyard in the cockpit, which released one of the hydrogen bombs that it was carrying. And the weapon behaved as though it had been released over the Soviet Union, over an enemy target deliberately. It went through all of its arming stages, except one. There was one switch that prevented it from detonating in North Carolina. And that switch, later, was found to be defective and would never be put into a plane today. Straight electricity in the bomber as it was disintegrating could have detonated the bomb.
Source:
How the U.S. Narrowly Avoided a Nuclear Holocaust 33 Years Ago, and Still Risks Catastrophe Today | Democracy Now!
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