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Nuclear weapons have fallen out of the sky before. No, they won't explode -- it isn't easy to make one go boom. But I would not be surprised if Green political
by berntb 14y ago
Nuclear weapons have fallen out of the sky before. No, they won't explode -- it isn't easy to make one go boom.
But I would not be surprised if Green political parties argue that risking a few km^2 contamination is worse than a certain dinosaur killer... :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Palomares_B-52_crash http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Palomares_B-52_crash
"The non-nuclear explosives in two of the weapons detonated upon impact with the ground, resulting in the contamination of a 2-square-kilometer (490-acre) (0.78 square mile) area by plutonium. [... another which fell] into the Mediterranean Sea, was recovered intact"