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Regrettable from a PR perspective but realistically, there are going to be some dud rockets. I assume in a real nuclear war, some number of US ICBMs fail in bo
by oldpersonintx 3y ago
Regrettable from a PR perspective but realistically, there are going to be some dud rockets.
I assume in a real nuclear war, some number of US ICBMs fail in boost and come down the US, likewise for Russia. These have been sitting in silos for decades.
- defrost 3y agoIn the real Cold War some number of US bomb delivery systems did fail and live bombs did fall down on mainland US soil (and a few off shore). See: broken arrows. At least one came so close to exploding it's a case study on the question of why it didn't ...
- arethuza 3y agoPresumably the 1961 Goldsboro incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash
- phyalow 3y ago190 UK tests, only 2 failures, and those failures are on the 2 most recent launches. Something is obviously wrong.
- captaincaveman 3y agoyes it's time for more funding, nothing gets funding better than a burning platform ...
- shaftoe444 3y agoBut for the UK this is our only nuclear weapon, if it fails there are no planes or land based missiles to back it up. Different for the US.