#US & its mishaps with Nuclear Weapons (Thread)
🔸#American President #Biden said :
"What I think is maybe one of the most dangerous nations in the world is #Pakistan."
🔸But, since 1950, there have been 32 nuclear weapon accidents, known as "Broken Arrows." It'ss defined...
🔸#American President #Biden said :
"What I think is maybe one of the most dangerous nations in the world is #Pakistan."
🔸But, since 1950, there have been 32 nuclear weapon accidents, known as "Broken Arrows." It'ss defined...
as an unexpected event involving nuclear weapons that result in the accidental launching, firing, detonating, theft or loss of the weapon. To date, 6 nuclear weapons have been lost and never recovered.
🔸The US is the only country to have used nuclear weapons on another...
🔸The US is the only country to have used nuclear weapons on another...
country, when it detonated two atomic bombs over two Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.
🔸, It's stated that Hiroshima suffered 135,000 casualties, or more than half of its population. The greatest number of these occurred immediately after the...
🔸, It's stated that Hiroshima suffered 135,000 casualties, or more than half of its population. The greatest number of these occurred immediately after the...
bombing. Nagasaki, a city of 195,000, suffered 64,000 casualties.
🔸On May 22, 1957, a US B-36 aircraft jettisoned an unarmed Mark 17 ten-megaton hydrogen bomb over Albuquerque, New #Mexico. The thermonuclear device, weighing 42,000 pounds, was being transported...
🔸On May 22, 1957, a US B-36 aircraft jettisoned an unarmed Mark 17 ten-megaton hydrogen bomb over Albuquerque, New #Mexico. The thermonuclear device, weighing 42,000 pounds, was being transported...
from Biggs Airfield in Texas to Kirtland Air Force Base just miles south of Albuquerque.
However, the device’s conventional explosives detonated, leaving a crater 12 feet deep and 25 feet wide on an uninhabited area of land owned by the University of New Mexico...
However, the device’s conventional explosives detonated, leaving a crater 12 feet deep and 25 feet wide on an uninhabited area of land owned by the University of New Mexico...
🔸On Jan 24, 1961, a US B-52 bomber carrying 2 × Mark 39 nuclear weapons crashed near Goldsboro, North #Carolina. The aircraft was a part of a Strategic Air Command (SAC) mission designed to keep a significant number of bombers in air at all times...
🔸On the morning of January 17, 1966, a B-52 bomber carrying four Mark 28 hydrogen bombs collided with a KC-135 refueling aircraft near Palomares, #Spain. The B-52 was part of the United States Air Force’s Operation “Chrome Dome,” in which Strategic Air Command constantly flew...
bombers armed with thermonuclear weapons in order to provide the US with a first strike capability over the USSR in event of a “hot” confrontation.
🔸 Conclusion:
Pakistan is neither a state which lost its planes, while putting live NUCLEAR WEAPONS on them, nor PAKISTAN...n
🔸 Conclusion:
Pakistan is neither a state which lost its planes, while putting live NUCLEAR WEAPONS on them, nor PAKISTAN...n
Needs someone else's help to protect its Nuclear Weapons!
🔸And also Pakistan isn't country which used Nuclear bombs against a civilization, killing people in millions.
🔸And also Pakistan isn't country which used Nuclear bombs against a civilization, killing people in millions.
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