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A Near-Miss Nuclear Explosion
The Nation
Mon Dec 18, 11:57 AM ET

The Nation -- In March 2005, a nuclear warhead almost exploded in Texas. The near miss accident occurred in Amarillo, when workers at the Pantex nuclear weapons plant bungled the dismantling of a W-56 warhead, a weapon 100 times stronger than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/15149667

[mindmetoo]

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The article is a little unclear and misleading in that it doesn't explain whether the weapon almost detonated (nuclear fusion chain) or whether the chemical explosives inside the weapon almost exploded. Most likely the latter. It takes a very discrete and complicated series of steps in order to detonate a fusion bomb, you cannot detonate one accidentally by dropping it, burning it or mishandling it. If the chemical explosives inside the weapon had exploded, most likely there would have been some plant damage and a LOT of plutonium contamination spread over an acre or so of land. But it wouldn't have been Hiroshima.

[Gopher]

I scanned the title, somehow perceiving "Little miss nuclear..." something, and by free-association assumed it had something to do with this little miss nuclear, who recently exploded (or perhaps just fizzled) on the Manhattan club scene...



...but, once here, I was somewhat disappointed to find just another mundane Igotthisguitar conspiracy/allegation.

Anybody wanna talk about Tara Conner? Speculate on what exactly it was about her undisclosed "behavior" that got her into such trouble with the Donald?

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I put my Microwave oven a little too close to my luminous watch face.

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