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To: Mr Radical
The US government has acknowledged the accident before, but never made public how close the bomb came to detonating ...

... except to Wikipedia (see the last paragraph in the history section).

7 posted on 09/21/2013 2:21:38 AM PDT by Zakeet (Democrats haven't destroyed your freedoms ... you can still visit them at the Smithsonian)
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To: Zakeet
.. except to Wikipedia (see the last paragraph in the history section).

The interesting part of your link is that only one of the bombs landed basically undamaged. If the hardware had been up to snuff, both bombs should have parachuted to ground without going off and basically intact.

But the second bomb impacted hard and ended up basically an earth penetrator, albeit unarmed (are you listening, Iran?).

8 posted on 09/21/2013 2:36:16 AM PDT by cynwoody
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