USAF nearly nuked North Carolina in 1961

[Dino Gaudino]

NC nearly nuclear

Sorry if Haas:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/20/usaf-atomic-bomb-north-carolina-1961

 

[DeacsPop]

Wow; never knew about this.

 

[ipitytheblue]

it's a really cool story. won't hassle your haas but I posted it in the wikipedia thread a couple months ago

 

[Brangus]

Close call:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/12/us/north-carolina-nuclear-bomb-drop/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

 

[tsywake]

Nearly

 

[bigdoublezero]

Most appropriate #neverfails hashtag yet?

 

[Brangus]

Looks like I posted the dreaded "triple haas."

 

[ImTheCaptain]

thanks, obama

"Or, as Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara put it in back then, "By the slightest margin of chance, literally the failure of two wires to cross, a nuclear explosion was averted."

awesome