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There was a major incident with nuclear weapons caused by pillows on a B52 catching fire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_crash https://
by arethuza 3y ago
There was a major incident with nuclear weapons caused by pillows on a B52 catching fire:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_crash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_crash
- sesuximo 3y agoThe pillows were the fires fuel. The original cause was heater/cooler systems malfunctioning (at least based on the page you linked)
- arethuza 3y agoI probably could have worded that better but my point was that if the pillows hadn't been inflammable then the bomber probably wouldn't have crashed?