American and Soviet rockets, bombers, and ships. Radiation leaks south of Japan from an American hydrogen bomb accidentally dropped from an aircraft carrier in 1965. In the 1990s equipment malfunctions led to Russian missiles accidentally being switched to "combat mode," according to a 1998 CIA ...
“The point is that accidents do not cause war. Decisions cause war. Accidents can trigger decisions; and this may be all that anybody meant. But the distinction needs to be made, because the remedy is not just preventing accidents but constraining decisions. “If we think of the decisions ...
What about a nuclear bomb being detonated by accident? It is well documented that the Cold War was pock-marked with several terrifying near-misses. A year before the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, theU.S. accidentally dropped two hydrogen bombs over North Carolinaafter a B-52 bomber broke up...
The reality of nuclear combat's devastation was clear as soon as the first atomic weapons were dropped during World War II, leading the U.S.
The other bomb, however… well, let’s just say the other bomb was difficult. During the fall its parachute had failed, so when it hit the ground it broke up into so many pieces that it took the respondersseven daysto find all the different parts. ...
“Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb,” he said, “I would have never lifted a finger.” Since then, the world has been forced to live with the knowledge that all life on earth could be quickly extinguished in the event of some mishap or...
In the made-for-TV movie, The Day After, a bomb is dropped on Kansas City. But the film manages to keep American proactive heroism alive by highlighting that the US struck first. JOE HUXLEY: They're on their way to Russia. They take about 30 minutes to reach their target. MAN: So ...
Hanford produced the plutonium that fueled the Trinity bomb test in New Mexico and then the plutonium for the bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, the one that ended World War II. Related Story When Kodak Accidentally Discovered A-Bomb Testing In the hurry to build weapons, though, little thoug...
As a result of the radioactive decay of tritium, concentrations in recent precipitation have lowered to the background level before the bomb tests. In this study, higher tritium concentrations were measured in shallower wells (Fig. 4). This suggests the second mechanism, because these higher ...
Think about thiswhen someone tells you “we” need to ban electricity, gas, oil, nuclear energy and subsidize the fake energythat currently has Ecuador and the Pacific Northwest groping in darkness. Helping communist efforts to weaken democracies has consistently strengthened Christian National Socialism...