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发帖数: 20343 | 1 英国卫报报道，1961年1月23日，一架B-52轰炸机携带两枚两千万吨当量的氢弹，飞越
北卡上空， 飞机出了事故，将两枚氢弹投向北卡的Goldsboro。 其中一枚氢弹开始了
起爆程序，结果一个安全开关制止了起爆，而其它三道安全机制全部失效。美国政府多
年来一直蒙蔽美国人民。
http://news.yahoo.com/us-nearly-detonated-atomic-bomb-accident-
LONDON (AFP) - The US Air Force came dramatically close to detonating a huge
atomic bomb over North Carolina in 1961, according to a newly declassified
document published by Britain's Guardian newspaper on Saturday.Two hydrogen
bombs were accidentally dropped over the city of Goldsboro, North Carolina
on January 23, 1961 when the B-52 plane carrying them broke up in mid-air,
according to the file.One of the bombs began to detonate -- a single switch
was all that stopped it from doing so. The three other safety mechanisms
designed to prevent an unintended detonation failed.The US government has
acknowledged the accident before, but the 1969 document is the first
confirmation of how close the United States came to nuclear catastrophe on
that day."It would have been bad news in spades," wrote its author, US
government scientist Parker F. Jones.The bomb was 260 times more powerful
than the one that devastated Hiroshima in 1945, according to the Guardian.
The accident happened at the height of the Cold War between the United
States and the Soviet Union.The declassified report was obtained by US
investigative journalist Eric Schlosser under freedom of information
legislation."The US government has consistently tried to withhold
information from the American people in order to prevent questions being
asked about our nuclear weapons policy," said Schlosser."We were told there
was no possibility of these weapons accidentally detonating, yet here's one
that very nearly did."Jones jokingly titled the report "Goldsboro Revisited,
or: How I Learned To Mistrust the H-Bomb", a reference to Stanley Kubrick's
classic 1964 film about nuclear Armageddon, "Dr Strangelove or: How I
Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb". |
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