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[1968] B52 Crashes with for nuclear bombs onboard [13+ minute history video]
The Flight Channel via You Tube ^ | December 31, 2021 | The Flight Channel

Posted on 01/11/2022 8:30:16 PM PST by beaversmom

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Video explains the reason why of the 1968 crash near Greenland.


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1 posted on 01/11/2022 8:30:16 PM PST by beaversmom
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The bombs have to be switched on. Otherwise they’re just big weights.


2 posted on 01/11/2022 8:35:33 PM PST by lurk (u)
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Big weights with fissionable materials inside. I handled nucs in my USAF career and know that even then that permissive action link codes were not inserted to unlock and enable them but nothing could stop the removal of the material for use in another easily made weapon.


3 posted on 01/11/2022 8:58:24 PM PST by TonyM (Score Event)
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Yes, but the other thing here is, if you can build a reactor with a graphite moderator, burn non-enriched uranium in it, you can chemically easily recover Plutonium and build your own that way as well.

That is why I think the whole thing with Iran is a drama both sides of isle use to warrant having Iran out there as a threat that can be beat on at will.

The time they pushed a power plant online, they were making bomb material, material that works even better than U235.

It’s all international drama.

Sorry for the hijacking of your post :)


4 posted on 01/11/2022 9:25:54 PM PST by Aqua225 (Realist)
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Are they still looking for one lost off the east coast or in a bay out there?

What happens when the casing rusts out and..


5 posted on 01/11/2022 9:28:34 PM PST by crz
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The beauty of a nuclear warhead is that there isn’t much material in it, when compared to say a RMBK1000 reactor, and the sea cares not for its contents, either.

The ocean won’t even notice the added new minerals!


6 posted on 01/11/2022 9:33:09 PM PST by Aqua225 (Realist)
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To: beaversmom

Just remember ... for bombs are twice as deadly as to.


7 posted on 01/12/2022 4:11:40 AM PST by 70times7 (Serving Free Republics' warped and obscure humor needs since 1999!)
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8 posted on 01/12/2022 1:21:19 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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9 posted on 01/14/2022 3:12:12 AM PST by 70times7 (Serving Free Republics' warped and obscure humor needs since 1999!)
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