3 nuclear incidents that could be catastrophic

The nuclear issue is inexhaustible.We invite you to take a look at three incidents that, fortunately, had no major damage.Do you dare?

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When talking about nuclear accidents, we immediately think of nuclear power plants such as Chernobyl, Three Mile Island or Fukushima, which have taken the horror of radiation even beyond the countries and regions where they are located., nuclear death has ways of traveling simpler and less ethereal than a radioactive cloud.

During the so-called Cold War there were nuclear weapons of both sides in continuous displacement, by land (in trains and trucks launches missiles) , by sea (in ships and submarines powered by nuclear energy) and by air (in superbombarderos), ready to be used as soon as the order to start the nuclear apocalypse was given.

3 nuclear incidents that could be catastrophic

Transporting a bomber

This continuous movement was naturally affected by several accidents in which chance played a key role in preventing disasters of unimaginable proportions.

In the US military slang there was talk of "Broken Arrow" (when broken by nuclear circumstances) when nuclear weapons were lost.Here we will see three broken arrows, fallen in unexpected places, although not necessarily surprising.

United States vs the Carolinas

South Carolina

At least in a couple of times the US Air Force accidentally attacked two states of the Union with nuclear weapons.The first was in March 1958, when a B-47 Stratojet dropped a nuclear bomb Mark 6 Ten kilometers from the city of Florence, South Carolina, in a place known as Mars Bluff, although the bomb did not carry material f isionable if I detonate the 3,447 kilograms of explosives, destroying a nearby house, damaging others and making a crater 10 meters deep by 20 in diameter.Luckily, in this case there were no victims, unless we count a dozen chickens that Air force takes years to recognize, and pay its owners.

North Carolina

The second case is not so hilarious.Less than three years after the Mars Bluff incident another superbombardero, a B-52 , was destroyed in mid-flight over the skies of North Carolina, dropping two hydrogen bombs Mark 39 .

3 nuclear incidents that could be catastrophic

B-52 in flight

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