ickplantMar 19

Backward ass country

https://lemmy.world/post/44473293

Show threadprettybunnysMar 19

It would really only be comparable if they nuked north Carolina then tried to cover it up.

It’s not shocking that the military keeps classified that sort of thing, they’d have been hard pressed to keep an actual nuclear detonation classified/hidden 🤷‍♂️

Show threadLasherzMar 19
Making a mistake with something intended to kill people vs making a mistake with something that provides a public good show different levels of intent. One of them was a city destroyer on purpose and the other was a city destroyer on accident.
Show threadprettybunnysMar 19
There was a plane crash. It wasn’t some “whoops we dropped ze bombs” situation.
Show threadchaogomu

Um, there were actually several instances of “woops we dropped a bomb”.

Until the invention of the ICBM, there were planes carrying nukes in the air 24/7.

It’s only thanks to luck that none of them exploded, as the safety systems in place today were not added until the 60s when Kennedy learned how American nukes were being handled and freaked the fuck out about it all. Justifiably so.

The Air Force had been in charge before that and fought relentlessly against adding any safety systems at all.

Mar 19 at 5:46pmWeb
Show threadprettybunnysMar 19
Ok. But not this instance … which is my point.