It would not. Those types of weapons cannot go off by accident. There is a specific chain of events that have to occur, and they cannot occur, even if the bomb hits concrete from 50,000 feet.
If there is an attempt to grab those bombs, I would fully expect to see that area carpeted with nuclear weapons tout de suite regardless of who is there, including our own personnel being trapped there.
That would be an awful choice, but I believe it is the one we would have to make.
But as another Freeper pointed out, the people making that choice in our own government have since stopped being “we”, and are something else, if their actions are any indication. So that isn’t a given any more.
“But as another Freeper pointed out, the people making that choice in our own government have since stopped being “we”, and are something else, if their actions are any indication. So that isn’t a given any more.”
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Quite correct.
Just thinking, Obama wouldn’t mind so much if Turkey took possession of those bombs.
“It would not. Those types of weapons cannot go off by accident. There is a specific chain of events that have to occur, and they cannot occur, even if the bomb hits concrete from 50,000 feet.”
You’re right. While I was in Checkmate I served as the XO to the AF Contingency Support Staff (an O-6) in the basement of the Pentagon for 8 years. We only met when there was an emergency. One of the times was the ICBM that exploded near Little Rock. Blew the warhead completely out of the silo. Nothing happened to the warhead other than going for a very short flight.