Post by Andrei Tchentchik on May 28, 2020 10:49:55 GMT 2
(.#B.048).- In the USA, a nuclear bomb almost exploded in 1961.
AFP
HISTORY - An American atomic bomb 260 times more powerful than that of Hiroshima almost exploded in January 1961 in North Carolina (Eastern United States), reports on Saturday September 21 the British daily newspaper The Guardian quoting an American document "declassified" .
According to the secret report on this event, a B-52 bomber broke up in flight on January 23, 1961, dropping two Mark 39 hydrogen bombs over Goldsboro, a city in North Carolina. "One of the two bombs behaved exactly the way a nuclear bomb is supposed to do" when it is intentionally dropped: "its parachute opened and the firing process started", reveals everyday life.
The explosion would have put "millions of lives at risk"
"A simple low-voltage switch functioning as a dynamo, saved the United States a catastrophe" by preventing the bomb from exploding, wrote Parker F. Jones, an engineer who worked in the national laboratories of Sandia, in charge of '' develop security mechanisms for nuclear bombs. Author of the report on the events which was written eight years later, he pointed out that three of the four safety devices did not work.
The disaster could have affected the cities of Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and even New York, putting "millions of lives at risk," the daily notes. At the time, the incident gave rise to intense speculation as to its seriousness, but the American authorities always denied that American lives were threatened because of insufficient security measures.
"The MK 39 Mod 2 bomb did not have the appropriate safety mechanisms for airborne use aboard a B-52", concludes the engineer in this report entitled "Goldsboro revisited, or how I learned to be wary of the H-bomb "- with reference to the subtitle of Stanley Kubrick's film," Doctor Folamour ".
The Guardian also reveals that it discovered that "at least 700 significant accidents and incidents involving 1,250 nuclear weapons were recorded between 1950 and 1968" by the government.
F I N .
AFP
HISTORY - An American atomic bomb 260 times more powerful than that of Hiroshima almost exploded in January 1961 in North Carolina (Eastern United States), reports on Saturday September 21 the British daily newspaper The Guardian quoting an American document "declassified" .
According to the secret report on this event, a B-52 bomber broke up in flight on January 23, 1961, dropping two Mark 39 hydrogen bombs over Goldsboro, a city in North Carolina. "One of the two bombs behaved exactly the way a nuclear bomb is supposed to do" when it is intentionally dropped: "its parachute opened and the firing process started", reveals everyday life.
The explosion would have put "millions of lives at risk"
"A simple low-voltage switch functioning as a dynamo, saved the United States a catastrophe" by preventing the bomb from exploding, wrote Parker F. Jones, an engineer who worked in the national laboratories of Sandia, in charge of '' develop security mechanisms for nuclear bombs. Author of the report on the events which was written eight years later, he pointed out that three of the four safety devices did not work.
The disaster could have affected the cities of Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and even New York, putting "millions of lives at risk," the daily notes. At the time, the incident gave rise to intense speculation as to its seriousness, but the American authorities always denied that American lives were threatened because of insufficient security measures.
"The MK 39 Mod 2 bomb did not have the appropriate safety mechanisms for airborne use aboard a B-52", concludes the engineer in this report entitled "Goldsboro revisited, or how I learned to be wary of the H-bomb "- with reference to the subtitle of Stanley Kubrick's film," Doctor Folamour ".
The Guardian also reveals that it discovered that "at least 700 significant accidents and incidents involving 1,250 nuclear weapons were recorded between 1950 and 1968" by the government.
F I N .
