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Hey, anyone else remember that unarmed Iranian warship that the US warcrimed the shit out of, or did I imagine that?
Chris Moorehead 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱@crispius I remember when Iran Air flight 655 was shot down by the USS Vincennes. Does that count?
GLCI even remember when we dropped two atomic bombs on North Carolina. And a few other things of that sort. Also the Israeli attack on USS Liberty, which at the time seemed memorable. Though to be fair, it was spying on them at the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash
But the latest string of war crimes do have a tendency to blur together. I'm thinking that bridge may have been a mistake, and Claude thought it was an elementary school.
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They crashed a nuclear-armed 52 in Greenland, too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_crash
Well, you know
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accidents
The thing about Goldsboro is that they actually dropped the bombs and one nearly went off. That might have caused some confusion.
But Arkhipov, and then Petrov, are the ones that most impressed me at the time - or more precisely, once they came out, at first only as rumors. Though neither case is counted as an accident, just a potentially civilization-ending decision narrowly averted (or evaded).
No harm, no foul.