Posted on 06/12/2014 8:19:31 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
On a January night in 1961, a U.S. Air Force bomber broke in half while flying over North Carolina. From the belly of the B-52 fell two bombs -- two nuclear bombs that hit the ground near the city of Goldsboro.
A disaster worse than the devastation wrought in Hiroshima and Nagasaki could have befallen the United States that night. But it didn't, thanks to a series of fortunate missteps.
Declassified documents that the National Security Archive released this week offered new details about the incident. The blaring headline read: "Multi-Megaton Bomb Was Virtually 'Armed' When It Crashed to Earth."
Or, as Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara put it in back then, "By the slightest margin of chance, literally the failure of two wires to cross, a nuclear explosion was averted."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Cueing the MSM lackeys to blame GW Bush in 3...3...1....
Interesting, will have to look for Red Rogue on Amazon.
It’s actually “Red Star Rogue”
Just stumbled on this thread today. That early in January, Eisenhower would have still been in office for close to three more weeks.
PFL
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