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The US military has accidentally dropped dozens of nukes out of planes (this was on the front page a few days ago) and none of them accidentally went boom. They
by ghostly_s 4y ago
The US military has accidentally dropped dozens of nukes out of planes (this was on the front page a few days ago) and none of them accidentally went boom. They don't spontaneously ignite, they are designed with several levels of safeguards to prevent that.
- xref 4y ago
- jacquesm 4y agoYou've misrepresented their point three times now, that's enough don't you think. See 'the principle of charity' embedded in the guidelines as "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.". https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- zeristor 4y agoYou’d think that wouldn’t you. There is the case of the Goldsboro B52 in 1961 crash in which three bombs could fell out of a plane and could have gone off but didn’t : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash Edit: of the four bombs one was only very close to going off, and a lot of lessons were learnt from this event 60 years ago.
- jacquesm 4y agoIt's a small miracle that none of them ever went off by accident and it got perilously close to that more than once. We just got very lucky.