Hello! I am starting a fun-fact service every day. here's todays fun fact:
2 atom bombs were dropped on north carolina.There was a imfamous B-52 bomber flying over the state when one of the engines failed. Due to some strange mechanics, two of the bombs left the plane. One's parachute mechanism succesfully let the devastating bomb to the ground, the other fell somewhere else. To this day, nobody knows where or how deep the bomb is. Hopefully it won't explode.
How would an atomic bomb drop from an airplane's height and not explode?
Oh, and I'm sure the government would be looking to this day. That would be devastating if one of them happened to go off. They wouldn't just forget about it and move on.
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How would an atomic bomb drop from an airplane's height and not explode?
nukes have safety mechanisms in them to prevent accidental explosion.
Partially true. It's actually not the impact which causes the atomic explosion. The impact sets off the device which causes the atomic explosion. Before they are dropped, the safety on that device is kept on, so even if it drops it probably won't go off.
Oh, and I'm sure the government would be looking to this day. That would be devastating if one of them happened to go off. They wouldn't just forget about it and move on.
I've heard about it before, and either they really never did find it, or found it and just decided that it wasn't worth the bad pr to report that they really had lost one but then found it.
Hmm...fun fact nobody should know...
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To the "How did it not explode?" people: The Bomb fell into a rich soil field, where the ground was very mushy Also, the plane was Falling out of the sky. The engines failed? REMEMBER?
My source is 100 Things you shoudn't know, By Rick Randon.
Partially true. It's actually not the impact which causes the atomic explosion. The impact sets off the device which causes the atomic explosion. Before they are dropped, the safety on that device is kept on, so even if it drops it probably won't go off.
Yes and no. Nukes do indeed have multiple safety systems to prevent accidental/premature detonation, but none of them involve impacting the ground - because nukes don't detonate on the ground. A nuclear blast is far more devastating and wide-spread when the weapon detonates as an air burst, several hundred yards above the surface.
Additionally, even if it is yet un-recovered (highly unlikely, btw) there is little or no hazard of the bomb in question cratering North Carolina. Weapons of any type, especially nuclear, that are being transported across American territory are disarmed before they begin their journey. In the case of a nuclear weapon, that would involve removing the Tritium Trigger, which is the device that initiates the nuclear chain reaction, and, depending on the bomb type, possibly the critical mass itself (the plutonium).
