The Plane Crash That Almost Nuked America | 1961 Goldsboro Incident
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This is the story of the 1961 Goldsboro incident. Now the US has bombed a lot of places, from Syria to japan to iraq to afganistan to iran to pakistan to kuwait to libya to north carolina to .. wait what? Yep north carolina almost made the list of places that america bombed. This is how. Now to understand the climate in which this incident took place we need to take a small history lesson. It was 1962 and the cold war could turn hot at any second. The two major super powers of the world , the US and the USSR were sure that the other would launch a preemptive nuclear strike so powerful it would decimate the receiver. To ensure that this didnt happen both sides got together and engaged in dialog to reach a mutual disarmament treaty that protected peace. Im just kidding, both sides devised techniques to make sure that they could return fire or in this case nukes even if their command and control centers had been reduced to radioactive ash. The US did this by having nuclear tipped bombers in the air 24 hours a day seven days a week for years on end. That doersnt sound expensive at all. So even if the soviets did launch a sneak attack America could still respond. This was operation chrome dome. Its simple enough, keep a few bombers in the air at all times with nukes just in case you wanna hop across the atlantic for a bit.
At about midnight on the 24th of january 1961 a B52 from johnson airfroce base in goldsboro was in the air as a part of operation chromedome. They had been airborne for about 12 hours and in the dead of night they were preparing to hook up to a tanker for a top up. Onboard the bomber were two mark 39 nuclear bombs. Now were not sure how powerful the bombs were, some decalssified documents said that the bombs were 24 meagtons each and some others say that it was about 4 megatons each. Now for some context, the bomb dropped on hiroshima was just 15 kilotons. Best case scenario the ones that this B52 carried was 266 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on hiroshima.
As the two planes hooked up the operator in the tanker could see something wrong with the bomber it seemed to have a leak in its right wing and fuel streamed out. The pilots on the B52 saw the effects of the leak on their instruments, the fuel quantity dropped. The plane was sent into a holdin pattern so that they could lose some weight, but as it reached the holding point the pilot of the B52 reported that they had lost about 37000 pounds or 17 tons of fuel in just three minutes. Thats one adults weight in fuel being lost every second. The plane was immediately instructed to return to seymour airbase immediately. As the bomber made its way back, it shed even more fuel.
Somehow the stricken bomber had made it near the airbase and the pilots were lining the plane up to land on runway 26. When the right wing gave out the, plane started rotating as it dived the centrifugal forces started to pull the plane apart, the centrifugal force pinned some of the pilots to the wall as the plane was in free fall. By the time they hit 9000 feet the pilot ordered everyone to bail out. Of the 8 crew members 5 people survived. But the story of this B52 is far from over. As the plane impacts the north Carolina countryside residents see the night turn into day and they rush over to the crash site. But unknown to them the two mark 39 thermo nuclear bombs had been thrown clear of the falling plane and as one fell away harmlessly the other started its arming sequence. The parachute deployed and it slowed its fall, this was done so that the bomber that dropped the weapon would have time to get far enough away from the inevitable 
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I literally laughed out loud about “being glad there isn’t a step-by-step procedure about arming a nuclear weapon on the Internet”! I totally agree Brother!!
Actually, there is, for each and every different type/class device. Currently, all require use of the PAL system (Permissive Action Link), previously, things ranged from inserting the nuclear core into the bomb to activating a motor that removed a neutron poison chain from the core to current weak link/strong link systems. Most, due to this debacle that could've trivially became a disaster. What really saved the day was that the fusing system was destroyed before that one switch could've allowed detonation to be initiated.
Now, there's a minimum of six classes of safeties, both in timing, geometrical asymmetric detonation disassembling the core if out of order in very short time frames, critical devices not switched active unless everything else went in order, PAL permission to arm the basic systems and a butt ton of other things. To use the words of one designer, "manually arming, without permission of a modern nuclear weapon is like performing root canal surgery through the wrong end of the patient.
Yeah, as easy as doing root canal through the patient's ass.
Now, all we need is to make it equally difficult for any side to authorize the use of such idiotic weapons.
And yeah, I worked on the infernal things in the military. Thankfully, that weapons system no longer exists.
Yeah there is, but you don't have the codes. In fact you can visit old Titan silos and habe a guide walk you through the arming and launching process. Of course the Titan is unfueled these days and doesn't carry a giant h-bomb amymore. Heck I've seen instructions on how to select the yield ond B61's online.
@@user-lv7ph7hs7l selecting the yield is easy, select it from the options provided on the VAX system. ;)
As for codes, just give me a bunch of bad ones, good codes result in much noise and my ears won't be happy with loud noises. :P
Because, some firecrackers are just too damned big to consider lighting.
Arming is a pain only in one way, mostly that being very early models, specific order of events required to properly arm the device. These days, that's done by the control processor and PAL system. The magic codes, of course, being part and parcel of the PAL system. Hence, the moniker "fail safe", as opposed to what nearly happened in Goldsboro, fail lethal.
Had the fuse not been mechanically destroyed before that last switch toggled, Goldsboro would still be uninhabitable, at least for sustenance vegetable growing and ground water. Just as some of the Marshall Islands remain uninhabitable from Castle Bravo. You can safely stay there, just don't dig, don't drink the water and don't eat anything grown there unless you really want to get to know your local oncology clinical team.
@@spvillano Ivy King and other high yield pre fusion bombs take the cake in arming sequences. Having about 3 critical masses in the core, neutron absorbing chains had to be manually removed from the core minutes before deployment after which a kiloton level sponteanous predetonation was possible. It was meant as a backup should Ivy Mike fail. The British had some 900 kt pure fission designs that filled the core with boron ball bearings, that had to be drained to prevent it going off.
I think it depends on the exact bomb, these Mk. 39's probably exploded pretty dirty with fission casing, they where early "light weight" bombs but the exact design and fission/fusion ratio is not known.
@@user-lv7ph7hs7l early fission and boosted fission-fusion-fission bombs are dirty, period. The uranium tamper, while also transmutating and fissioning, also spewed all kinds of fissile and fissionable mass all over the place.
And to give a hint as to how magic nuclear warheads aren't, they found fissionable core components from the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombs.
Exit strategy from the shot cab after Castle Bravo: wear a sheet and run like hell at the end of that surprising day. Maybe they should've tried small batches of lithium in an accelerator first... ;)
Still, it did advance civil defense knowledge a lot.
"If you're following along at home, please get your thermonuclear device now" 😂😂😂 I love how your videos are not just informative and fascinating, but also entertaining!
His sense of humour can be dry at times.
I really wish I hadn’t just taken a sip of coffee when he said that.
Because we all just casually own thermonuclear devices at home. Like, no big deal, right? /s
Instructions unclear, accidentally annihilated southern London.
@@svchineeljunk-riggedschoon4038 The fuck you mean ''accidentally''? lmao
“I swear, researching this video has probably put me on a watch list”
And we appreciate you for it lol!
Failing to agree that a 4 Yr old child should be given transgender hormones gets you put on a watch list these days. I shouldn't worry about it lol.
@@MattyEngland shouldn’t be giving kids unnecessary medications, especially cross-sex hormones, shouldn’t be getting those until you’re 18! Every child needs to go through puberty, especially if you’re transsexual and want to have successful sex reassignment surgery, plus puberty is natural and nobody enjoys puberty, all of this is common sense tho, and in today’s world, that gets you put on a list. Mind you, so does upsetting some twunts feelings on Twitter these days I’m sure!
If you aren’t on a watch list by now, you’re not a patriot.
@@greggstrasser5791 exactly bro 👍👍
He can just think of them as his _special_ fans.😁
The great part about Eisenhower being President is that as military general, his mind would likely have gone straight to why that target? Alerts would doubtless have gone higher, but to strike without understanding seems highly unlikely. Nobody understands the implications of war more than a General.
This was an outstanding walk through of this incident. Thank you for doing it. 👍
Eisenhower wasn't Curtis LeMay by a longshot.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower%27s_farewell_address
The thing is -- Kennedy was inaugurated on January 20th 1961, so he had been president for 4 days when this happened, not Eisenhower.
@@AML2000 you're right! It might not have gone so well if the advisors to the Bay of Pigs were advising President Kennedy and this had happened. Was thinking 1960, not 1961.
Total bullshit mate
@Skummeh it pretty much was one either way.
I can just picture that briefing and him wondering, "just what in the everloving fuck did I get myself into?!".
It’s really terrifying how man nuclear bombs are just lost. Surely they’re in the hands of someone(s).
Our life is so cozy, and yet so fragile.
IDF.
The nuclear material isn't able to create a reaction after a few months apparently.
@@CThyran I guess that would make sense considering those highly unstable isotopes have short half lifes. But then that begs the question, how do you maintain an arsenal of nuclear bombs? They change the plutonium or whatever every few months?
Most of the ones lost, were lost in the deep ocean. Which are their own special degree of scary. But not something anyone is going to casually find or recover. There is one lost somewhere on South Carolina, but on the continental shelf, that has never been found. That is probably the most worrying one. Any lost by the Western Nations on land have been located, I believe. There may be one from a B-36 crash in the Arctic that went missing, but I’m pretty sure they did eventually find it. As for Soviet era stuff? A missing Soviet bomb is probably the least problematic form of lost nuclear materials scattering the former Eastern block landscape.
Most of the other lost nukes were also dropped from crashing B-52s. From what I remember, they're either buried in Greenland, at the bottom of the sea, or buried in south spain (There was a crash, I can't remember if they recovered all the nukes.
"We almost blew up one of the carolinas, but that's why we have 2 of them"
I’m from NC, and my dad is from a town not too far from Goldsboro, and he would’ve been living there about that time. So, it’s nice to know my entire existence could in some way be thanks to one little switch on crashing B-52 😅
You forgot to mention Spain in the list of bombed countries. Yes, four nuclear bombs fell near the coastal Spanish town of Palomares, when the B-52 bomber carrying them and its tanker crashed against each other on January 17, 1966.
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audio quality is way better than older vids!
keep it up ^^
The parachute didn't deploy on the 2nd bomb and it slammed into the ground and broke apart on impact. Most of it was recovered about 20 feet below the surface but the super heavy uranium/plutonium core was never recovered. It sank so far down that ground water flooding made it impossible to keep digging. The area around the impact zone is fenced off to this day just in case of radiation contamination. It's in the middle of a farm field just outside the community of Faro, NC.
That was fascinating. It reflects well that there were four fail safes. One was enough to save the day. Imagine if they had relied on just three... Great video as always. Thank you sir.
That’s pretty much what I thought.
“Good thing they didn’t get the el cheapo version with only 3 failsafes.”
The struggle for the DoD was how to secure special weapons without preventing them from functioning properly during wartime. Many scientists worried that they were not safe enough while many in the DoD worried they there were too many failsafe devices that might actually prevent a successful detonation when it really mattered. Codes to prevent unplanned detonations? The military set the codes to all zeros. Pins to prevent unplanned detonations? The military made sure the pins were easy to remove. A full review of accidents and incidents with nuclear weapons would shock a normal person today, but during the cold war it was seen as the cost to keep Americans alive. Just imagine the stress on the military when you are constantly told today might be the day you die on a flight to drop nukes on the Soviet Union, and that mission lasted for decades. We also had submarines with a similar mission, and the scores of missile silos ready to launch missiles with simple message from the pentagon.
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Yup.
Pretty horrifying, and darkly comical at the same time.
That's a really great story, thanks for digging up deeper and telling us not just about the crash, but about everything else connected to it
I think that in 1961 immediate retalliation wouldn't have been the reaction, in the early 1960s there was some decrease in animosities, both sides even took steps to avoid massive retaliation
Umm. Bay of Pigs? Cuban Missile Crisis? Khrushchev? Kennedy assassination?
Duuuude, the Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest we came to Nuclear War!
If I remember my 1961 US History, the “oops we just nuked North Carolina” call would have gone to President Kennedy, not Eisenhower
Not even a week into his term, at that.
@@ChrisCaramia exactly!
“If you’re following along at home, go get your thermonuclear device now.” You had me LOLing :D
You became my favorite aviation youtuber. You are an amazing storyteller!
probably was another step to the arming process most likely, for most devices, a separate fuse had to be manually inserted into the Bomb which started the explosion's of the ring bomb (which starts the pressure-front forming criticality)... as far as I understand, most devices did not have that inserted until the command would be given to strike... a special engineer kept that fuse with him at all other times...
however
want the scariest part...?
according to records, this was not the only time that town was (almost) nuked, and in the other time, the bomb was actually released with due procedure upon the pilots conscious command! the plane was so low, the pilot, trying to pull his plane out of a stall driven dive event, figured the arming sequence would not have time to go through before the device shattered against the ground below, he was right, & losing the bombs weight, allowed him to regain control of the aircraft (due to a change in CG)
...Note to self: avoid Goldsboro.
Loved your narration 😉 Well done!
Your videos are really good. I enjoy them! Your voice is so crisp and soothing.
I think both response attitudes were reasonable, seeing as the more calm bomb manufacturer did recommend additional safety tech even though that present was technically “enough”.
It's called CYA. Cover Your Ass_ets.
Originally heard this story from Fascinating Horror. Safe to say you’ve got yourself a new subscriber. Awesome stuff 👍
Yea the USAF really has something against the Carolinas. A few years earlier, in 1958, they dropped a nuke on South Carolina.
I have a feeling that if the bomb would have went off, Eisenhower would have likely smashed that Nuke button and flattened the USSR, and they would have done likewise.
I was about to close out of the video thinking it was over and then "there's one more question". me: "Oh yeah! The plane!". 🤦🏻♂️
A very wonderful explanation, is equal to watching a documentary, scary to imagine the situation
Love your hard work...Thank you.
GREAT STORY - Thanks for covering. Fantastic Horror covered this, minus the technical details. This is more my style!
Lmaoo the start of the video was super funny lmaoo love your work dude
This definitely gets a ‘like’ but you’re unlikely to have been placed on a watch-list. I recall being taught the function, construction, and operation, of nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors in high school physics, and that was decades ago. It’s the almost impossible resources required that provides a huge buffer between knowing how to build such things and actually being able to do so.
Yeah given a pile of U235, most halfway decent engineering or physics students should be able to put together a gun type weapon. Making that pile of enriched uranium takes a cities worth of electricity for a year and giant facilities and highly trained staff. And if you're good with fluid dynamics you could probably even make an implosion weapon with todays simulation capabilities.
Uh I'm pretty sure you can get all you need from Amazon to make a nuclear bomb.
And now you're also on a watchlist 🤣
@@Thunder_Dome45 Not in the needed quantities and some things are hard. You'd need about 20 t of natural uranium, that's pretty easy to get. Don't breathe in the dust! Then you need centrifuges. That one is hard. They spin at 40k rpm and even a fingerprint on one side is enough to destabilize it and spin itself apart. You'd have to make a deal with NK or Iran to get those, both have native centrifuge manufacturing capability. Next is several tons of fluorine, that's gonna raise some suspsicion but still doable. Then you need a facility to set up your centrifuge cascade, a large empty factory with access to MW's of power. Gas chromatography is an option but that needs like an aircraft factory worth of footprint and Gigawatts of power. So primitive centrifuges but a lot of them are your best bet. As is acquiring reactor grade uranium. That's gonna be hard but will save you about 80% of the electricity and time needed. Next you need an old navy gun, like a 5 inch or larger. Some explosives, by far the easiest part and the rest is pretty obvious. You could get everything from Amazon but not in the quantities needed. Ebay is a better bet. And you need a reason why you are buying several truckloads of uranium. That's easy if you're a country and individual not so much. There used to be a one stop shop that would sell you anything from uranium, to warhead designs, centrifuges and elwctronic components that are hard to get (nanosecond precision timers). But that organization was busted after supplying Iran, NK and Lybia among others (further reading, AQ Khan, aka the father of the Pakistani atom bomb. He was the boss of the nuclear smuggling ring). But honestly your best bet is finding weapons grade material that was lost by the USSR in its final days. Entire bombs and many critical masses worth of fissile material where "lost". Some weapons storage facilities remained unguarded and unlocked for weeks with no one knowing exactly how many bombs the USSR had.
@@opioid01 I’m on a “watch list” for explaining that this information is contained in high school physics textbooks?!? So, does every passing physics student go on the list, or do you now realise that much of this knowledge isn’t secret or classified? Just because you’re unfamiliar with this field doesn’t mean that it isn’t common knowledge amongst those who are more highly educated.
Your videos get better and better!
Thanks for the recap. More details in: Joel Dobson, "The Goldsboro Broken Arrow", 2nd ed., 2013.
This video was dynamite!😉
(Also idk why but I found it so hilarious when you were going over arming instructions like a tutorial and even told people they should have the bombs with them😹)
Great topic! I love the dry humor too!
Love the content
FYI: The "LA" designation on the tail of the B-52 used in this vid is from a fleet of bombers that is based at Barksdale AFB, Louisiana, the present "home" of Hq 8th AF. At the time of this "incident" (aka "Broken Arrow"), the Hq of the 8th AF was at Westover AFB, Massachusetts.
Also, the BUFFs at Seymore Johnson AFB were assigned to the 464th Bomb Wing.
@@johnosbourn4312 i wonder if people ever realized that eastern North Carolina would be the first thing blasted off the earth in a Russian nuke attack.
SJ AFB, Fort Brag (with pope airfield), Marine corps air station Cherry point, Marine corps air station new river, marine corps Camp Lejeune,
don't forget the Coast guard out of Elizabeth city which is also a Command and control point for USCG administration. Sprinkle in the National guard bases on the edge of the triangle and Eastern NC would glow in the dark.
Add to the military fun , our old friend Voice of America. - A giant 3 site array of dishes and transmission towers that would pump AM frequency out with such strength ( and due to the fact AM bounces) could be heard across the planet. You know the Russians would have wanted to take out VOA in particular the further back in time you went, and the fewer communication methods people had available.
www.milvets.nc.gov/services/military-bases-n
Great. He couldn't be on the watch list alone, so now we are all on it. Thanks, buddy
"One failsafe from catastrophic nuclear detonation" is too close for comfort, but still a relatively good result.
This is both a "Good job! You didn't kill thousands or millions! NOW MAKE IT BETTER SO THERE'S AT LEAST TWO FAILSAFES THAT WORK IF THERE'S A NEXT TIME! And thank you for making it well enough to not explode this time."
This accident is literally 5 minutes from my front door and I've begged for this and I'm so happy it's out now
It blows my mind to know how many nuclear weapons have been 'lost'. Its not just the threat of explosions or theft of the material, its the knowledge that people can and have been exposed to the radiation of these sources without realizing. And the results can be devastating.
Nice work. 😌 stay safe.
EPIC VID!
While I know it is rather tangential, the US has indeed bombed its own people on American soil before. 1985, Philadelphia, police dropped a bomb from a helicopter on its own citizens for getting uppity.
And that's not the only time.
To bad Philly doesn’t have a well regulated militia to deal with government tyranny.
@@greggstrasser5791 sadly, just like militias in history, the closest philly has is problems with police looking the other way while armed groups go harass people.
militias tend to be an extension of tyranny, not a counter.
@@clarencejacobowitz640 entire New Mexico and Nevada lol
Blair Mountain?
OH COOL! You did the Goldsboro incident!
It's been many years but I spent a week working at Sandia Labs on the air force base in Albuquerque, New Mexico and before going home I went to the National Atomic Museum and if I recall there were many photos and a description of this incident along with other Broken Arrow incidents.
8:56 it’s so scary to put in perspective that if that bomb went off in my town, everybody would either be dead or have severe burns
FYI: Philadelphia did actually bomb itself in the 1980s. So the US has technically actually bombed itself, since local government counts.
There's Tulsa and Blair Mountain, but I think the bombing was citizen-conducted in both cases.
Currently sitting watching planes at Seymour Johnson AFB. Great timing on the video
That is worry some. Glad we are still here to look back on it. I just hope lessons were learnt.
Cool video. I feel like what you call fail safes measures are really arming methods.
“We need to understand how to arm a nuclear weapon.”
“I swear, researching this video has probably put me on some watch list.”
Yeah, like you weren’t already!
That was a fantastic narrative!!
Totally scary, I hope there's a lot more safety steps to complete by today.
Yeah there is an 8 digit code. Used to be set to all 0's but that was changed a long time ago. PAL is what the system is called. It's on every nuke or missile.
Excellent!
Now let's hope I can watch this beyond the sentence "So this is how you activate a nuclear device..." without suddenly getting a 'Video is no longer available' error.
Doubt! Unless he somehow get the unredacted version of those documents and explain them thoroughly, but I doubt in that case he would not have been able to even finish reading before "FBI, open up" should outside his house.
A little over an hour now… video still not ‘nuked’. Great comment though!
Priceless!
It was like a tradition of b52s crashing during the operation chrome dome (1958 - 1968)
We also bombed Savanah Harbor with a B-47, Albuquerque with a B-29 AND a B-36 (two incidents), and quite a few other incidents over the United States...you ought to make a longer segment, "Times We Almost Nuked Ourselves" oh, the B-36 bomb drop DID kill a cow from the low level detonation of the explosives of the Mark 17 bomb in Albuquerque.
I don't know if this is the place to recommend accidents to look into. but one from my hometown that may be interesting to look into would be the 1994 Fairchild AFB B-52 crash.
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8:24 "make the bomb a lot more safer" ironic isn't it?
I'm not really concerned if the method of arming a nuke that hasn't been in service in over 50 years is on the internet or not, its not like you're gonna find one at your local GoodWill store!
Then what's this thing in my basement? 😇
@@briant7265 to quote Sgt Schultz, “I know NOTHING!!!”
@@briant7265 You can find out easily ... just follow the procedure step by step ... and let us know what happened
"If you're following along at home, please get your thermonuclear device now" - Good stuff right there
Not an expert here, but my suspicion is the arming sequence is an *either* the altitude switch goes off or the ground switch goes off, not both. Reason being that its more effective to detonate a nuke a couple hundred feet up so that terrain doesn't attenuate the blast. But if the altitude switch fails, they still want it to detonate, hence the ground switch, because even if it doesnt destroy all the targets they don't want it to be recovered. More of a "fail dangerous" right their. But I'm with Sandia Labs on this one, fail safes (lanyard and switch) were effective.
Well, no. The arming sequence is a physical change to the bomb that puts it into a state in which a nuclear explosion can take shape. A simple procedure (and I don't know if this is how it is designed) would be to take the the fissionable material out of their separate cases and actually insert them into the bomb. So without this arming of the bomb it is IMPOSSIBLE to get a nuclear explosion from just crashing the plane. Look, the scientist and engineers THOUGHT OF THIS when they designed the particular bomb.
Now that you've done this you GOTTA do Canadian Pacific Airlines flight 108.
I heard that another B52 went down in the Mediteranian Sea with nukes onboard that was never found.
Might be worth looking into for a future video?
Funny side note
This bomb fell in a little town outside of goldsboro nc called "Eureka "
Quick grammar tip:. "safer" or "more safe" are appropriate usage. "More safer" is not. Great videos!
Mini air crash investigations: and thermal nuclear near detonations.
"They found a solution to make the bomb a lot more safer"
Haha
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Already some comments made about it here, but I think it's *very* worthwhile correcting that *Kennedy* was actually President, not Eisenhower, when this all happened. And he had only been in the job for about 84 hours, talk about timing(!!!) - and how this may have affected his decisions and policies going forward.
@11:21 "No step by step..." hahahahaha. True brother!!!
The actual designation of those bombs is B39, not MK-39.
Greetings and Solyushins to you 😎
Greetings and solutions to you as well!
@@MiniAirCrashInvestigation solutions? 😂
I loved the way you opened this with "The US has bombed a lot of places"- ain't that the truth!
There was no texting in 1961. Teletype machines or rotary dial phones where the communication devices of that time.
I think estimates have about 30 or so soviet nukes that are lost.
However, such weapons are very delicate and require constant maintenance. After all these decades, many of the arming mechanisms are likely degraded or damaged to a point that renders these bombs about as lethal as a brick.
Hopefully.
Maybe.
The problem with nukes is not knowing how to arm them, but actually getting hold of one.
Never found the 2nd bomb? OMG...might wanna check the drinking water in that area, crazy
Well, of _course_ Sandia was like, "Hey, it didn't go off, what's your problem?"
Good grief - I used to spend a lot of time less than 50km from the crash site.
😆 this is a good one!
9:12 Eisenhower was most likely at home. What is *truly* scary is that we had a brand new president who had been in office for only *THREE DAYS* who would be getting the call.
The 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash occurred on 23 January 1960 and the inauguration of President Kennedy was on 20 January 1960.
Watch the movie Fail Safe. It is a story about the dangers of being so close to the edge of war, and making systems that can potentially fail.
“We need to learn how to arm a nuclear weapon” well that’s oddly relevant to today now isn’t it
N27RA a video on this one could be interesting.
Eisenhauer was probably the best suited President to deal with the question. He was the war fighter. And had long since learned to always get the full picture before acting. He was also briefed in on the nuclear program going back at least to ‘43. And was familiar with a number of other close calls involving aircraft. A single detonation in South Carolina? His first question would be “is it one of ours?”. Remember he was briefed in on the bombs before Truman was. They were originally intended for his European theater.
I pray to god or the universe that these weapons never get used again on any race of people. Not a single person deserves to endure the atrocities that these weapons can bring about.
What about against aliens 👽?
IIRC it wasn't that they didn't _find_ the entirety of the other bomb, it was that they didn't *extract* the entirety of the other bomb because the marshy nature of the ground made it too unstable to properly dig the stupid thing out. So they just ripped out the core and other hazardous bits and took those away. And I mean, that picture seems to show the entire bomb so...
FYI, you don't say "a lot more safer." You either say "a lot safer," or "a lot more safe." "A lot more safer" is redundant. I love your videos so please see this as constructive criticism, that's all. 😉✌️
I love the “Go Boom”😂
I would like to point out, that JFK was inaugrated just four days prior, on January 20th, 1961.
Meaning that barely a week into his presidency, JFK would have woken to a nuclear attack on North Carolina, in the height of the Cold War. I would imagine the tensions would have been higher, than at the end of Eisenhower's presidency.
You can add West Virginia to places America has bombed. See the Battle of Blair Mountain
You should read the book 'Command and Control'
The Commander and pilot of the B52 was Major Walter Tulloch, his granddaughter is Superman and Lois actress Elizabeth Tulloch
Imagine just casually finding a lost nuke.Scary stuff,but will these things degrade as the years roll by?......
aha, so it WASN'T a dream!
I think the 24 MT rating is a mistake. Probably meant 2 - 4 MT as a number of different things can affect yields of warheads.
If you're close enough to see the fire given off from a plane crash it won't make the least bit of difference if you stop to help the crew or run away. That flash and radiactive fallout will most definitely kill you, regardless. You can't just drive away from a nuke lol
WOW!