Two Nuclear Bombs Almost Destroyed North Carolina, But Reeaaaal Good Like

[JJJ's Ulcer]

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/12/us/north-carolina-nuclear-bomb-drop/

Unclassified documents show that in 1961, just around when Dr Strangelove was hitting theaters, a B-52 with two nukes broke apart above a North Carolina city of 40,000 people. One nuke had its last fail-safe out of three kick in after its parachute opened. The other nuke had ALL its fail-safes …. uh, fail… its parachute did NOT open and the only reason it didn't detonate was because it had a faulty fuse and wires didn't cross properly. It was literally dumb luck that North Carolina barbecue didn't mean something much darker. *




(* Dear sensitive people-Joke is in good taste because it thankfully didn't happen )

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

The tobacco industry would have been decimated, also my favorite pickle brand Mt. Olive would be gone

 

[Marvolo]

Cracked mentioned this in one of their articles last year. Pretty crazy stuff.

 

[jonathancrane]

Crazy indeed.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

Yes, such a shame

 

[GENERAL RAAM582]

I wonder if I still would have been born. I mean, my family didn't live in North Carolina, but still.

 

[CyclopsWasRight]

How ironic would it have been for a country to kill it's own people with it's own weapons by mistake

 

[KevanG]

Considering it is the only country to ever use them in war against people then the irony of killing it's own people would be high indeed.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

So these megaton bombs had 300 times the power of the Hiroshima bomb. It almost certainly would have decimated both Carolinas and sent fall-out up and down the east coast.

 

[KevanG]

It'd be like Kingdom Come all over again.

 

[Marvolo]

So these megaton bombs had 300 times the power of the Hiroshima bomb. It almost certainly would have decimated both Carolinas and sent fall-out up and down the east coast.

Not to mention what it would have done to the economy.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Probably a number of our parents would have been indirectly affected if not directly, and some of us posting in this thread wouldn't even have been born.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

In South Carolina, we got this here Savannah River Site, which holds materials for nuclear weapons. If dat thang go boom, no mo french fried potaters for a lot of folk round these parts, bo.