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The day we almost lost Goldsboro

TB — 9/21/2013 5:02:26 PM (archived)

Guardian article on the nuclear weapons accident of 1961

Goldsboro, and then some. This would have been a 4 MT ground burst, in North Carolina, with prevailing winds moving to the northeast.

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The day we almost lost Goldsboro - TB - 9/21/2013 5:02:26 PM
- Does: "one simple, dynamo-technology, low voltage switch stood between the United States and a major catastrophe"... - alcaray - 9/21/2013 9:00:12 PM
  - I'm wondering if there could have been a back door to the described situation. - bowser - 9/26/2013 12:51:27 AM
    - Maybe, but if they were that poorly designed, wouldn't there have been a lot of accidents? - alcaray - 9/26/2013 8:02:11 AM
      - Well, if there are 4 independent switches. - bowser - 9/27/2013 6:36:09 AM
        
        Not so. - alcaray - 9/27/2013 4:29:53 PM
        
        My handgun is a poor example. - bowser - 9/27/2013 5:48:31 PM
        
        a device is a device - alcaray - 9/27/2013 9:26:42 PM
        
        One last attempt. - bowser - 9/28/2013 3:05:37 AM
- I find this hard to believe. - ER - 9/21/2013 8:00:30 PM
  - Yeah, me too, when I look at it. - TB - 9/21/2013 8:15:21 PM

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