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One cheap switch saved US from nuclear ...

PostPosted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 12:37 pm
by isaiah40
Apparently a B52 bomber broke up over North Carolina in 1961 and one of the nuclear bombs it carried - out of two - almost detonated, but one cheap switch did not go off, thereby saving the east coast from a nuclear devastation.

Re: One cheap switch saved US from nuclear ...

PostPosted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 2:12 pm
by Metsfanmax
Who needs an intercontinental hotline to avert a nuclear crisis when a simple switch will do?