[Calvin Locke]

I'll take a wild guess and say the fuses on a dropped bomb are more sensitive than those still mounted.

If that was the bomb that started the chain reaction, then perhaps it took precious seconds away from the fire suppression team to otherwise eliminate the cooking threat?

McCain made my excrement list when he wasn't booted from the Senate (along with Glenn), for his participation in the Keating Five scandal.

[TigersEye]

That's a nice theory but the actual investigation showed that the old bombs cooked off exactly as expected, the fire safety officer knew about it and lost his life trying to prevent it, and the fuses had nothing to do with cook off time.

Here's the link again for anyone who can spend 46 minutes to end their ignorance...

USS Forrestal Aircraft Carrier Disaster 46 minute documentary

Here is a thread devoted to the subject...

My promised article concerning McCain and the USS Forrestal(CV-59) Fire

Here's a post by a FReeper who was on the Forrestal during the fire...

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