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55 years ago this morning over Palomares, Spain, a B-52G bomber on airborne alert collided with a KC-135 tanker during a routine high-altitude refueling operation, killing all 4 tanker crew
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THREAD: Now would be a good time to revisit what senior military leaders have said on the record about how they would respond if Donald Trump were to order them
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Fifty years ago this morning, Baneberry—a 10-kiloton, weapons-related, underground nuclear test 912 feet beneath the Nevada Test Site—accidentally vented, releasing 80,000 curies of radioactive iodine-131, more than any other US
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OTD in 1964 at Bunker Hill AFB, Indiana, as aircraft were taxiing during an Operational Readiness Alert inspection exercise in icy weather, a B-58 carrying a 9Mt B53 bomb in
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Tonight in 1983, more than 100 million Americans saw multiple thermonuclear weapons destroy Lawrence, Kansas, in "The Day After" on ABC. A.C. Nielsen Co. reported that 62% of television sets
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When Vice President Mike Pence traveled to Darien, Wisconsin, yesterday to give a campaign speech at Tankcraft Corporation, his backup nuclear "Football"—being held here by a White House Military Office
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A must-see report by Ted Koppel for @CBSSunday. Presidential Emergency Action Documents originated in the 1950s as a way to prepare for the aftermath of a nuclear war. They allow
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At this moment 75 years ago—11:02am August 9, local time, "Fat Man”—a 21-kiloton implosion-type atomic bomb—exploded ~1,650 feet over Nagasaki, missing its intended aim point by 1.3 miles but killing
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Today in 1985, French secret agents—in an elaborate intelligence operation codenamed Satanique—bombed and sank the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland, New Zealand, as it prepared to return to Mururoa
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