50 fun nuclear bomb facts...

ka-boom.

and it keeps on going.

that was fun, thanks dusty.

velly intellesting....

7. Number currently in the stockpile (2002): 10,600 (7,982 deployed, 2,700 hedge/contingency stockpile)

36. Number of U.S. nuclear tests in Nevada: 911

mommy, where does cancer come from?

44. Number of U.S. nuclear bombs lost in accidents and never recovered: 11

50. Estimated 1998 spending on all U.S. nuclear weapons and weapons-related programs: $35,100,000,000 :confused:

fact #50. 'nuff said. i bet nuclear weapons engineers keep big ol' bankrolls. and run up on one with a pussy ass glock--his crew will vaporize your hood with a ten megaton blast. now that's gangsta...

jesus f-ing christ......

how many times (that we dnt know about) do u think we been close to world destrction?

i dont know if its mentioned on that link, but in the 60s a nuke was accidentally dropped on my hometown (theres an AFB there) it didnt explode obviously, but when it was recovered it was learned that 5 of the 6 failsafe switches malfunctioned, i think parts of the bomb were never recovered im not sure. just one failsafe away from destruction of the east coast. ahhhhh.

geez...so does this show that we have spent more on weaponry than on anything else in history???

First Things First: It Did Happen

Just after midnight on 24 January 1961, a B-52G Stratofortress bomber stationed at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, NC, broke up in mid-air and crashed 12 miles north of the base near the cross-roads of Faro, NC.

The aircraft ejected two hydrogen bombs as it fell.

Official Word

Below is the Pentagon's brief narrative of the incident, a copy of which was provided this project by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (hereafter SIPRI or Stockholm Institute):

During a B-52 airborne alert mission structural failure of the right wing resulted in two weapons separating from the aircraft during aircraft breakup at 2,000 - 10,000 feet altitude. One bomb parachute deployed and the weapon received little impact damage. The other bomb fell free and broke apart upon impact. No explosion occurred. Five of the eight crew members survived. A portion of one weapon, containing uranium, could not be recovered despite excavation in the waterlogged farmland to a depth of 50 feet. The Air Force subsequently purchased an easement requiring permission for anyone to dig there.

The Stockholm Institute has called the Goldsboro incident "perhaps the single most important example in the published literature of an accident which nearly resulted in a catastrophe." This claim appears to be founded upon yet another hair-raising claim in the 1961 Lapp book.

Lapp wrote in Kill and Overkill that each device involved in the Goldsboro incident was equipped with "six interlocking safety mechanisms, all of which had to be triggered in sequence to explode the bomb." Lapp said that "five of the six interlocks had been set off by the fall..." and thus, "only a single switch prevented the bomb from detonating and spreading fire and destruction over a wide area

The Sum of All Fears was a terrible movie, but the nuclear bomb scene was chilling, and makes you think...

oh boy!! the fun never stops!!!

whens the milk and cookies fellas????

Originally posted by !@#$%

geez...so does this show that we have spent more on weaponry than on anything else in history???

pretty much.

the US military budget per year up until this year was somewhere in the

ballpark of $356, 000, 000, 000.

its now officially sitting at $396, 000, 000, 000 per year.

a rise of roughly $40 billion since bush took office.

well dude, i think scones and tea would

be a more appropriate 'meal' for mulling this over..

but for fun, milk and cookies is mos def the way.

browner, you always have some intelligent stuf fto say around here..

do you know if that goes for all of humanity, and not just the u.s...

i know we aren't the only ones wasting billions on war

scones are good browns but nothing goes better with a nuclear fall out then some soggy dipped oreos........mmmmmmmmm radiation............;)

I think I'm going to drop a nuclear bomb of my own when I get home. Goddamm burritos!

hahaha...well hombre, i'm not an oreos fan, but dipped choco

chip cookies will do fine....we'll need some sunscreen too huh?

wow, dusty has the threads o' fun going today:dazed:

ah yes lets not forget the sun screen....im thinking SPF 15 will do us justice.......

ya know what we need to do??!!!

have a fallout sleepover!!!

oh man that would be so cool!!

Originally posted by BROWNer

wow, dusty has the threads o' fun going today:dazed:

i'll see if i can dig up something a lil more...

optimistic

cute kittens?

interesting...

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Go Cooter GO!!!

haha, cooter....i had no idea.

i couldn't access that rumsfeld thing though..

roe, did you say spf 15, 009.2??? cuz

thats what i thought you said...

where's the cheeseball smiley when you need it...

no B i want a tan mofo!!! im gonna use baby oil...oofah!!!!!!

that and cats and the viking thing kills me........

im going home now, to ponder how such an astronmical defense budget will somehow make my life safe....later

Originally posted by !@#$%

do you know if that goes for all of humanity, and not just the u.s...

 

i know we aren't the only ones wasting billions on war

yeah, but we do waste more money on war than the next nine countries combined homie.

. . .my dad told me once this white stuff (solid at room temp.) was falling from the sky, he figured that it was probably fall out that got caught in the jet stream from nuclear bombs exploding thousands of miles from where he was. hmmm, i wonder what it was, all i know is that i haven't seen anything like that, yet.

Originally posted by BROWNer

 

pretty much.

the US military budget per year up until this year was somewhere in the

ballpark of $356, 000, 000, 000.

its now officially sitting at $396, 000, 000, 000 per year.

a rise of roughly $40 billion since bush took office.

i dont think bush is the only reason *cough* 9/11 *cough*

reheheheheheeeeeaaalllly?

first off, i didn't say he was the only reason.

i said he increased the budget by roughly $40bill/year.

let me put it this way...do you have

any idea who is running america right now?

many top officials are cronies from the reagon administration

which spent more on the military budget than all other

administrations combined before them(if my memory serves me correct)..

and now they're back...

a massive chunk of the bush admin. come from the military-industrial complex.

30 or so are linked to lockheed-martin,

which is the largest death corporation on earth. they sell weapons and weapons technology to any and everyone, not much discrimination there. many of the rest have ties to the heritage foundation, which is funded by lockheed-martin.

so right off the bat you've got an administration that has full on interests

in the military budget.

plus, 9/11 doesn't take anything away from the fact that its

an absurdly obscene budget for basically pursuing legal murder.

i also contend that the term 'defense budget' should be changed.

fun???