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Decades Later, Sickness Among Airmen After a Hydrogen Bomb Accident [1966 Palomares, Spain B-52 crash]
In 1966, a B-52 bomber on a Cold War nuclear patrol exploded over Spain, releasing four hydrogen bombs. Fifty years later, Air Force veterans involved with the cleanup are sick and want recognition. Alarms sounded on United States Air Force bases in Spain and officers began packing all the low-ranking troops they could grab onto buses for a secret mission. There were cooks, grocery clerks and even musicians from the Air Force band. (www.nytimes.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Is the problem for taking care of our Veterans money? That could be partially solved by NOT financialy supporting Illegals.
If the HE went off, it acts as a dispersal device - currently called a dirty bomb, If HE was detonated, in each case (Spain and Greenland)you would have had lethal uptakes of plutonium.
I am so sickened with the way our veterans are being treated. Even if radiation dangers were not known in 1966, which would really be a stretch because much had been learned in the 21 years since we bombed Japan, we know those effects now. Just as we have long since known the incidences of cancer and other illnesses in St. George, Utah, the nearest town downwind from the nuclear testing in Nevada in the Fifties. I can only pray - veterans of my generation and branch of service - that your suffering is short and that you receive justice in the next life because you sure as hell are not getting it in this one.
If the answer IS, we cannot afford the cost. The money IS THERE.Stop supporting illegals. That would take care of the cash shortage.
While I cannot second guess the emergency action taken after the disaster, as a nation we MUST step up and take care of our service people who simply did what was asked of them during that trying time.
This also makes one wonder when the Air Force and government say that there is nothing to be afraid of from the nuclear bomb lost in Wassaw Sound. They say its not a complete bomb. But, why would a bomber carry around an incomplete bomb? Some day we may find out the hard way who's telling the truth.
It was an "incomplete" weapon because it did not have a nuclear capsule in it. That's one means by which our early nuclear weapons were "safed". The plane was on a simulated combat training mission, and it would have been unnecessarily risky (from a logistics standpoint and a safety standpoint) to even have the capsule on the plane. In an actual combat mission, the capsule would initially be on the plane but not in the weapon. For safety, it would be inserted into the weapon at an appropriate time during the flight.
By the way, surprise of surprises, it seems that the weapon was found by recreational divers last year. I'm attempting to get confirmation from the appropriate authorities. http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/georgia-amateur-divers-find-long-lost-nuclear-warhead/
By the way, surprise of surprises, it seems that the weapon was found by recreational divers last year. I'm attempting to get confirmation from the appropriate authorities. http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/georgia-amateur-divers-find-long-lost-nuclear-warhead/
Thanks for the post Glen. It sure does look like its been found. I guess the shifting tides slowly revealed it over time instead of further burying it. I feel better about my daughter living on James Island now. The article said that the Navy divers removed the Uranium core before recovery. Is that different than the nuclear capsule?
Just to clarify, my checking with a government office revealed this to be a hoax. (Someone in my office pointed out to me that I should have just checked snopes, which says it's a hoax.) It appears the "Uranium core" is the author's way of describing the capsule, although such old capsules could have contained uranium, plutonium, or a combination of the two.