Faulty Switch Saved North Carolina from Accidental Nuclear Strike

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Faulty Switch Saved North Carolina from Accidental Nuclear Strike
Anonymous Coward User ID: 29362325 United Kingdom 09/21/2013 09:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Faulty Switch Saved North Carolina from Accidental Nuclear Strike The plane was on a routine flight when it began to break up over North Carolina on 23 January 1961. As it was breaking apart, a control inside the cockpit released the two Mark 39 hydrogen bombs over Goldsboro. One fell to the ground unarmed. But the second "assumed it was being deliberately released over an enemy target - and went through all its arming mechanisms save one, and very nearly detonated over North Carolina," Mr Schlosser told the BBC's Katty Kay. Only the failure of a single low-voltage switch prevented disaster, he said. The bomb was almost 260 times more powerful than the bombs that fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. [link to www.bbc.co.uk] crazy to think a dodgy switch saved NC

Anonymous Coward User ID: 28316289 United States 09/21/2013 09:20 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Faulty Switch Saved North Carolina from Accidental Nuclear Strike It wasn't a faulty switch It was the fail safe architecture No go code no final switch.
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 29362325 United Kingdom 09/21/2013 09:24 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Faulty Switch Saved North Carolina from Accidental Nuclear Strike It wasn't a faulty switch It was the fail safe architecture No go code no final switch. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28316289 Only the failure of a single low-voltage switch prevented disaster, he said.
Anonymous Coward User ID: 32069520 United States 09/21/2013 09:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Faulty Switch Saved North Carolina from Accidental Nuclear Strike :bidiot:

Anonymous Coward User ID: 28316289 United States 09/21/2013 09:26 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Faulty Switch Saved North Carolina from Accidental Nuclear Strike It wasn't a faulty switch It was the fail safe architecture No go code no final switch. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28316289 Only the failure of a single low-voltage switch prevented disaster, he said. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 29362325 Well HE doesn't know what he is talking about..... The switch did NOT fail Read the released documents
ceawaves User ID: 44925563 Germany 09/21/2013 09:39 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Faulty Switch Saved North Carolina from Accidental Nuclear Strike Faulty switch... could mean something like abort abort for now.
Anonymous Coward User ID: 28316289 United States 09/21/2013 09:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Faulty Switch Saved North Carolina from Accidental Nuclear Strike Faulty switch... could mean something like abort abort for now. Quoting: ceawaves Watch the movies "Fail Safe" and "Dr Stragelove" because BOTH of those films had information in them that made all the film makers involved be interviewed by the FBI and CIA. Both films were quite accurate in mechanics and that was why they were investigated and it was obvious that people who were on the inside were consulted to write the technical aspects of the films. There wa ONLY ONE "low voltage" circuit in those systems and it was the fail safe system and ONLY the president could activate all nukes. Even that fact was classified for political reasons.
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