Re:The U.S. military is missing six nuclear weapons
by wand3r on Friday March 17, 2023 @11:16PM
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Prior to 1968 we lost a nuke on average once every 3 years. Then miraculously after ramping up production not a single one was lost over the next 50...
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Re:The U.S. military is missing six nuclear weapons
by ianburrell on Friday March 17, 2023 @11:27PM
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The change was that in 1968, the Air Force stopped flying active patrols with nuclear armed bombers. They had bombers continuously in the air carrying live nuclear weapons. A lot of the nuclear accidents were really bomber accidents.
Two in this list were from accidents on aircraft and submarine with tactical nuclear weapons. Tactical nuclear weapons weren't removed until later.