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Even if it was armed, it would be unlikely to go off. Here is a quote from a missile silo accident: https://www.armytimes.com/news/2017/11/04/details-of-south-

by mrep 9y ago

Even if it was armed, it would be unlikely to go off. Here is a quote from a missile silo accident: https://www.armytimes.com/news/2017/11/04/details-of-south-dakota-nuclear-missile-accident-released/ https://www.armytimes.com/news/2017/11/04/details-of-south-d... "Incredible as it may sound to a civilian, Hicks said he spent no time worrying about the thermonuclear warhead. He had been convinced by his training that it was nearly impossible to detonate a warhead accidentally. Among other things, he said, the warhead had to receive codes from the launch-control officers, had to reach a certain altitude, and had to detect a certain amount of acceleration and G-force. There were so many safeguards built in, Hicks later joked, that a warhead might have been lucky to detonate even when it was supposed to."

totalZero 9y ago
Some folks who knew more than you and I seemed to think there was potential for a nuclear disaster. > In 2011, Lt. Jack Revelle, the bomb disposal expert responsible for disarming the device, claimed "we came damn close" to a nuclear detonation that would have completely changed much of eastern North Carolina > In a now-declassified 1969 report, entitled "Goldsboro Revisited", written by Parker F. Jones, a supervisor of nuclear safety at Sandia National Laboratories, Jones said that "one simple, dynamo-technology, low voltage switch stood between the United States and a major catastrophe", and concluded that "The MK 39 Mod 2 bomb did not possess adequate safety for the airborne alert role in the B-52".