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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsBroken Arrow
In February 1958, the U.S. Air Force accidentally dropped an atom bomb on South Carolina when two planes collided. A B-47 over Mars Bluff released the device. Its fissionable core was stored somewhere else, but thousands of pounds of conventional explosives fell 15,000 feet into the home of William Gregg, leaving a 75 ft crater. Such broken arrow events common in that era. Five of them occurred in 1958.
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Broken Arrow (Original Post)
My Good Babushka
Nov 2014
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Recursion
(56,582 posts)1. Was that a broken arrow per se?
I thought that term only referred to loss of custody of the fissable elements?
whistler162
(11,155 posts)2. Did Slim Pickens ride it down?
sounds like a loss of custody to me.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)3. As I read it, it was never on the plane?
Am I reading that wrong?
whistler162
(11,155 posts)4. You are right, still likely
due to the technology in the bomb, classified as a Broken Arrow occurrence.
My Good Babushka
(2,710 posts)5. Thanks for clearing that up.
Last edited Thu Nov 20, 2014, 02:11 PM - Edit history (1)
All I know is that the account I read of it called it a Broken Arrow event.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,317 posts)6. Well, obviously Mr. Gregg pissed someone off! n/t
Wolf Frankula
(3,595 posts)7. From Giles Prentice in the Movie of that name
"I don't know what's scarier, losing nuclear weapons, or that it happens so often there's actually a term for it. "
Wolf