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Meteor Made 2.1 Kiloton Explosion Over US Air Force Base Thule, Greenland
- grizzles 8y ago> We’re still here, so they correctly concluded it was not a Russian first strike. The fact that it was travelling around 1/10000th the speed of light probably tipped them off. [Edit: missed a zero]
- tlb 8y agoc/12300 according to the numbers in the article.
- vinnyglennon 8y agoConsidering the circling b-52's considered the destruction and loss of radio contact of Thule to be the start of a Soviet attack during the Cold War: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_crash#Thule_Monitor_Mission https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_crash...