With various countries around the globe threatening to nuke the U.S., it makes for a rather tense existence. No worries! I recently came across some interesting tid-bits that should put your mind at ease.

July 1956, near Cambridge, England: a B-47 aircraft plowed into a storage igloo. The plane’s jet fuel burst into flames almost immediately, but for some reason didn’t ignite the contents of the igloo. Good thing, too, as it contained three Mark 6 nuclear bombs.

1958, Mars Bluff, South Carolina: a B-47E accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb into a family’s veggie garden (whoops?!). The bomb didn’t explode, but the impact damaged five houses and a church. Air Force officials “apologized.”

1961, North Carolina: a B-52 dropped two 24-megaton bombs on a farm. According to one physicist: “Only a single switch prevented the bombs from detonating.”

In 1966, Palomares, Spain: another B-52 carrying four 20-megaton bombs crashed – with one of the bombs splashing into the Mediterranean Sea. It took the U.S. 6^th fleet – using 33 ships and 3,000 men – several weeks to find the missing bomb.

1980, Arkansas: a repairman working on a Titan II missile dropped a wrench – which bounced off the floor, punctured the missile, and set off an explosion that blew the top off the silo and threw the warhead 600 feet into the air.

June 3, 1980, Omaha, Nebraska: The Strategic Air Command’s computers detected a Soviet submarine missile in attack progress. Within minutes, more than 100 B-52s were in the air, but the SAC soon called off the counterattack – the computers had made a mistake. The culprit: a 46-cent computer chip. Three days later, the same mistake happened again.

Oh – did I say I was going to put your mind at ease? Haha, my bad! What I MEANT is that you can rest assured that if and when our country blows up, one of our inept fellow citizens or nearby allies will most likely be the cause of it, NOT North Korea, Afghanistan, et al.

Can we all agree that the nuclear bomb and its cousins have no rightful place in ANYBODY’S hands? This world is fucked up enough as it is – did we really need to create a weapon that could easily kill off all of humanity?

My great-grandfather, Walter Wallin, was a consultant on the Manhattan Project and inadvertently helped to create the nuclear bomb…but immediately did some karmic damage-control by co-creating the heat-seeking missile, which just might prevent us from being blown to smithereens one day…that is, unless there’s not enough time to detect it because, let’s say, for instance…some American dipshit drops a warhead on your house.

Sweet dreams!

*Facts compiled from various sources, which are available upon request…but I recommend Google.

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