The linked article supports the OPs claim. > As it fell, one bomb deployed its parachute: a bad sign, as it meant the bomb was acting as if it had been deploye

The linked article supports the OPs claim. > As it fell, one bomb deployed its parachute: a bad sign, as it meant the bomb was acting as if it had been deployed deliberately. It started flying through the seven-step sequence that would end in detonation. The last step involved a simple safety switch. When a military crew found the bomb, it was nose-down in the dirt, with its parachute caught in the tree, still whole. As the Orange County Register writes, that last switch was still turned to SAFE. Perhaps you are saying the same thing arriving from different paths. OP didn't say why it was amazing they didn't detonate. Maybe they read the same article. Are you assuming that they think nukes just go boom in an explosion? It is amazing they didn't detonate, given how far along in the arming sequence they seam to have been. It is not hard to conceive of something bumping that switch during the destruction of the plane ... world might be a very different place had that happened. US thought it was nuked (by the Soviets), launches attack, Soviets launch counter attack.