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In reply to the discussion: US nearly detonated atomic bomb over North Carolina - secret document [View all]bananas
(27,509 posts)2. Goldsboro revisited: account of hydrogen bomb near-disaster over North Carolina – declassified docum
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Goldsboro revisited: account of hydrogen bomb near-disaster over North Carolina declassified document
This document was written on 22 October 1969 by Parker F Jones, the supervisor of the nuclear weapons safety department at Sandia national laboratories. The document has recently been declassified having been acquired under freedom of information provisions by the investigative reporter Eric Schlosser for his new book Command and Control. It is published here for the first time.
In the document, Jones gives his response to a passage in a book by Dr Ralph Lapp, a physicist involved in the Manhattan Project that developed the first nuclear bombs, that describes the accident in 1961 in which two hydrogen bombs were dropped inadvertently over North Carolina. An extract of Lapp's book is reprinted on the left hand column of the first page of this document, and Jones's expert response is printed on the right hand column.
The second page of the document is all in Jones's words, giving his expert opinion on the serious nature of the accident and how close America came to catastrophe
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Goldsboro revisited: account of hydrogen bomb near-disaster over North Carolina declassified document
This document was written on 22 October 1969 by Parker F Jones, the supervisor of the nuclear weapons safety department at Sandia national laboratories. The document has recently been declassified having been acquired under freedom of information provisions by the investigative reporter Eric Schlosser for his new book Command and Control. It is published here for the first time.
In the document, Jones gives his response to a passage in a book by Dr Ralph Lapp, a physicist involved in the Manhattan Project that developed the first nuclear bombs, that describes the accident in 1961 in which two hydrogen bombs were dropped inadvertently over North Carolina. An extract of Lapp's book is reprinted on the left hand column of the first page of this document, and Jones's expert response is printed on the right hand column.
The second page of the document is all in Jones's words, giving his expert opinion on the serious nature of the accident and how close America came to catastrophe
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bananas
Sep 2013
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Goldsboro revisited: account of hydrogen bomb near-disaster over North Carolina – declassified docum
bananas
Sep 2013
#2
May have been part of the U.S. "Operation Northwoods" to drum up support for a War against Cuba:
blkmusclmachine
Sep 2013
#5
But what you "know" is wrong and directly contradicted by the just-released document.
bananas
Sep 2013
#29
Considering that I was working from years old memory, I think I did pretty well. N/T
GreenStormCloud
Sep 2013
#40
I actually know someone who would have been privy to the information about the safeties
davidpdx
Sep 2013
#43
That was the first thing that came to mind. I belive they cover the NC story in thge docu? No?
Hassin Bin Sober
Sep 2013
#22
Music video for that quote, which is engraved on Max Weber's grave in Heidelberg:
freshwest
Sep 2013
#45
Three fail safes failed but the fourth and last one worked, preventing the catastrophe.
Kablooie
Sep 2013
#25
Recommended: "JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters," by James Douglass.
Peace Patriot
Sep 2013
#26