I know that I live pretty close to many many nuclear bombs. I live in Seattle, which is fairly close to naval base Kitsap-Bangor, which I think is home to the majority of the USA's sea-based nuclear arsenal.
"Nobody knows where they are..."
Well, that's partially incorrect. He even explained how the first 11 were lost and where they were lost. All of those are unlikely to ever be found by, well, anyone and we know their general location.
However Russia's on the other hand...
I thought the U.S. took their bombs out of Turkey after the failed coup?
Nuclear incompetency is horrifying. It's like that monkey with an AK video, except real and worse
I've been avoiding this video in my recommended videos list for ages. It's about as bad as I expected.
The claims the ones missing on land haven't been recovered is wrong. In the case of Goldsboro they recovered everything but the secondary, because the bomb disintegrated on impact. The missing Soviet weapons aren't unknown either, you can literally google their location. Good luck recovering a nuclear bomb at 4000m though.
You can also use Nukemap to calculate the damage from the Tybee bomb if it somehow went off. Savannah, Georgia is outside the blast radius or even the 3rd degree burn radius. The beach front houses pictured didn't exist when the bomb was jettisoned either.
Watched a documentary about that one that fell into the ocean a long time ago. Basically some divers and the old bomber crew went looking for it. They came to the conclusion it likely decayed and rusted up since all they found was a lot of trace radiation everywhere. A U.S government official flat out denied it had a hot warhead and insisted it was a dummy as well.
i'm kind of skeptical of how much i should actually be scared of the accidental detonation of one of these nukes. i don't live near any of those locations listed, but even if i were, i don't know much about nukes but you'd think they'd make sure it's extremely hard to actually detonate them for this exact reason (that and enemy sabotage). what do you think? am i wrong?
[QUOTE=Saxon;52463648]Watched a documentary about that one that fell into the ocean a long time ago. Basically some divers and the old bomber crew went looking for it. They came to the conclusion it likely decayed and rusted up since all they found was a lot of trace radiation everywhere. A U.S government official flat out denied it had a hot warhead and insisted it was a dummy as well.[/QUOTE]
Did they prove the levels were above background and did a radioisotope analysis to prove the source was Pu239? Otherwise I'd guess they're talking out of their ass. They would have made the news if they could prove it.
If this worries you, well, atleast with this you might have the [I]teensiest[/I] bit of surviving:
[video=youtube;tW7IgKJWtqk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW7IgKJWtqk[/video]
Good luck!
Cool, no nukes near me
Closet nuclear weapons that I'm close to that I'm aware of are near Columbia, MO which my dad claims is the largest in the country although the video says otherwise.
[video=youtube;6M0NxHaaeWE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M0NxHaaeWE[/video]
Or the one that fell in SC that blew up (but nuclear part wasn't armed or something.)
Well. I live about 7~ Miles away from nukes.
Fun times...
~151 miles away. I feel safer already
[QUOTE=ForgottenKane;52463571]"Nobody knows where they are..."
Well, that's partially incorrect. He even explained how the first 11 were lost and where they were lost. All of those are unlikely to ever be found by, well, anyone and we know their general location.
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Doesn't make it any less embarrassing :v:
I'm pretty sure there's a nuclear silo in the Rocky Mountains, but I'm also not too far away from the old Rocky Flats nuke manufacturing facility.
Cool no nukes near me either *lives within blast radius of San Francisco*
Even if a nuclear war would be devastating it's a common misconception that it would cause the end of humanity.
Because of technology bombs have become more precise so instead of having a single 1-10mt bomb like in the cold war, modern ICBMs have multiple small precise 300-500kt bombs.
So instead of nuking an entire city to destroy a silo or a military base, these smaller bombs only destroy their targets and leave most cities untouched(unless the city is the target)
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