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Re:Billion-Ton Comet May Have Missed Earth by a Few Hundred ... by berntb on Friday November 23, 2012 @04:04AM (#4821466)
Nuclear weapons have fallen out of the sky before. No, they won't explode -- it isn't easy to make one go boom.

But I would not be surprised if Green political parties argue that risking a few km^2 contamination is worse than a certain dinosaur killer... :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Palomares_B-52_crash

"The non-nuclear explosives in two of the weapons detonated upon impact with the ground, resulting in the contamination of a 2-square-kilometer (490-acre) (0.78 square mile) area by plutonium. [... another which fell] into the Mediterranean Sea, was recovered intact"

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