Imagine you're watching TV in peace one night that's when the broadcast is
interrupted and an emergency message is played it says that a nuke is imminent
and you're about to be blown up you need to seek shelter right away you may
assume that this nuke is coming from China or Russia but really the nuke has
been launched by your own country the United States it sounds like something
that would never happen but it almost did the date was January 24th in 1961
eight crew members were flying a b-52 stratofortress plane the plane was
flying over Goldsboro North Carolina and it was carrying two Megaton mark 39
nuclear bombs this was part of the Cold War program at the time during the Cold
War nuclear armed planes were flying at all times but during the flight the b-52
developed a fuel leak in its right wing air traffic control said it needed to
head back to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base immediately it began to fly back
but the plane soon lost control six of the eight crew ejected and the b-52
began to spin the two Megaton nuclear bombs then separated from the plane
while it was falling the plane broke up in the sky and then crashed on impact
one of the bombs sank 55 feet into a swampy farmland to this day it's never
been recovered and its uranium core is still buried underground that's right
there is an unexploded nuke inside a swamp in North Carolina the army figured
it would be too difficult to dig this out that's why they simply bought the
farmland from the farmer to this day there's lots of barbed wire fences
around it and there's also army guards guarding it at all times but it the real
scary thing is what's happened to the other bomb
unlike the swamp bomb this one actually opened its parachute it then floated to
earth but when it hit the ground three out of four safety switches became
unlocked this was a one-in-a-million freak accident the safety switches are
very simple low voltage switches and just a single one of these prevented the
nuke from going off if the full switch broke like the other three then North
Carolina would be no more amazingly the public did not even know this at the
time that's because this information was not revealed until 2013
before then government spokespeople said that the bomber was unarmed and
not explode but as a Freedom of Information Act request found this was a
total lie sadly during this chaos three of the
crew actually passed away five men landed safely but one crewmembers
parachute did not open and then the two pilots passed away in the crash that's a
pretty crazy story but it's also not the first time the USA nearly blew itself up
on September 18th 1980s something perhaps even more dangerous nearly
happened this was at the launch complex 374 7 that is a nuke complex in vampire
and County Arkansas one day some mechanics were adding pressure to the
second-stage oxidizer tank of a Titan 2 missile this was topped with a 9 Megaton
w53 nucular warhead but that's when one of the mechanics made a pretty dumb
mistake they dropped a wrench socket right onto the nuke of course a wrench
socket is a heavy piece of metal and it fell 80 feet or 24 meters at quite some
speed it then hit the Rockets first stage fuel tank this caused a hole in
the pressurized fuel tank this began to fill up the entire missile silo with a
hypergolic fueled arrow sign 50 eventually this caused the rocket to
collapse this then caused the arrow sign to ignite that's because it came into
contact with nitrogen tetroxide the gigantic explosion threw a 740 ton
launch door 600 feet away and it also ejected the nuclear warhead the warhead
landed 100 feet outside of the launch complex now thankfully this complex was
in the middle of nowhere this meant the warhead caused no human
or property damage thankfully its safety features worked and it prevented it from
detonating but if this didn't work then the entire state of Arkansas would have
turned into a mushroom cloud but now let's move over on the map to Georgia
the United States nearly blew itself up on February 5th 1958 at 2:00 a.m. the
Air Force was doing a simulated combat mission involved in this training
exercise it was a b-47 bomber this was carrying a mark 15 more 0 nuclear bomb
during the exercise the b-47 bomber collided with an f-86 fighter jet the
f-86 fighter jet was also part of the training exercise
when the planes collided the f-86s wings were ripped off this caused it to fly
down to the ground and crash but amazingly the p-47 managed to remain
airborne this was critical as it was carrying a nuclear bomb however in the
collision is fuel tank was severely damaged at this point the Air Force
controllers did not know what to do remember the airplane was carrying a
7600 pound bomb it was a complete bomb with a nuclear capsule attached to it
they were certain that if the plane tried to land there would be a big
nuclear explosion so that's why they told the b-47 to dump the bomb they did
this just off the coast of Tybee Island Georgia there was a gigantic surge but
to this day the bomb has never been found it's thought to be buried under 15
feet of sea clay but it's pretty scary to think that right there is an
unexploded nuke if it did go off then the state of Georgia would be wiped out
it could also cause things like tsunamis to occur but that's not the only time a
training exercise nearly ended for us a another training exercise nearly got way
too real on March 11th 1958 this took place in Mars Bluff South Carolina one
day some b-47 bomber planes set off from Savannah Georgia they were heading to
Bruntingthorpe Air Force Base in the United Kingdom this was for a Cold War
training exercise but in the middle of the flight the captain of a b-47 bomber
noticed a problem with the locking pins on board these locking pins were keeping
in place a mark 630 kiloton fission bomb a nuclear fission is a process in
nuclear physics this meant that if the bomber broke the locking pins it would
cause total devastation not only will it wipe out any where that it landed but it
would also radiate maybe the entire country much like in the movie dr.
Strangelove captain Colchis at a top of the bomb he
did this to try and examine it but while doing this he accidentally grabbed the
emergency bomb release mechanism this caused the bomb to come loose now
the bay doors were closed but this former was three tons this meant it
simply broke through it and fell out of the plane thankfully Captain Colca was
able to pull himself back into the plane just in time
but he very nearly fell with the bomb dr. Strangelove style the explosives
Destin on impact and it left a massive 35 feet
deep crater this destroyed a home in Mars Bluff South Carolina
I wonder if air insurance policy covered nucular bombs being dropped in the house
now you may be wondering why is the world not over if this nuke was dropped
well thankfully the plutonium core was not triggered but this was down to a
mistake it actually should have been triggered and this meant that the bomb
was defective so it's actually really lucky that this nuke did not work during
the incident one air traffic controller actually heard the radio transmission
from the plane the word from the captain was oh no I dropped the darn thing
imagine how you would feel knowing that you just dropped a nuclear bomb over
your own country Berdych clumsy mistakes can sometimes nearly cause at the end of
the world this was also proved in 1945 an incident
took place at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico some scientists were
experimenting with the diamond core this was a 15 pound 3.5 inch diameter mass of
plutonium and it was actually involved in two terrible incidents the first took
place in 1945 a tungsten brick was dropped onto the core this caused a
chain reaction and blasted a scientist with radiation so much that the
scientists instantly passed away the second incident took place in 1946 the
demon core was surrounded by some spheres of beryllium the top portion was
being raised and lowered by hand and they were clumsily using a screwdriver
to prop the spheres open however the screwdriver fell in this
caused a flash of blue light to come out from the core this was the process of
the core becoming supercritical and releasing a load of radiation the
scientists involved actually passed away nine days later from the radiation and
years later three of the other scientists working there passed away
from radiation related illnesses but despite all of the chaos at the diamond
core used it was actually put to use on the 1st of July 1946 it was detonated on
Bikini Atoll Island this was part of a nuclear test video of which was recently
Declassified so those were some times the USA nearly mute itself if you think
that's scary then you should know this in the United States alone there are 11
loss nooks these are nooks which are just
missing and we don't know where they are I'm surprised they don't teach us about
these events in school but when you look back at history there have been many
times the world nearly ended for good some say that at some point there will
be a nuclear fallout but many dispute this because of
mutually assured destruction this means that if one country nuked another the
other country would simply send a nuke back the only problem is what if a
country makes mistake and accidentally nukes itself it sounds silly but as
we've learned just now it can happen but now it's time to make your voice heard
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