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> One simple, dynamo-technology low voltage switch stood between the United States and a major catastrophe! > [the] bomb did not possess adequate safety... The
by lelandfe 4y ago
> One simple, dynamo-technology low voltage switch stood between the United States and a major catastrophe!
> [the] bomb did not possess adequate safety... The unalterable conflusion is that the only effective safing device during airborne alert was the ready-safe switch
> If a short to an "arm" line occurred in a mid-air breakup, a postulate that seems credible, the Mk 39 Mod 2 bomb could have given a nuclear burst.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/796426-goldsboro-revisited-pp-1-2-copy.html#document/p2 https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/796426-goldsboro-rev...
Parker Jones, nuclear weapons safety specialist at Sandia National Laboratories in a formerly-classified 1969 document obtained by FOIA in 2013. Request was actually made by Eric Schlosser during his writing of Command and Control, the book GP mentions: https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/sep/20/goldsboro-revisited-declassified-document https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/sep/20/go...
- ttyprintk 4y agoIirc, 3 of the 4 safety systems had tripped. This switch is an actual, wired switch. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/warfare/id1526490428?i=1000598970332 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/warfare/id1526490428?i...