Do we really need this on our planet? Do we? In our societies?
Journalist uses Freedom of Information Act to disclose 1961 accident in which one switch averted catastrophe (click here)
Ed Pilkington in New York
The Guardian
A secret document, published in declassified form for the first time by the Guardian today, reveals that the US Air Force came dramatically close to detonating an atom bomb over North Carolina that would have been 260 times more powerful than the device that devastated Hiroshima....
Where were YOU on January 23, 1961? We just inaugurated John F. Kennedy as President on the 20th and three days later this is what the taxpayer gets. Oops. That is what we get, oops.
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs was, General Lyman Louis Lemnitzer, he took office under Eisenhower, the man who gave us "Atoms for Peace." General Lemnitzer would take a command with NATO within the next year. Goldsboro revisited: account of hydrogen bomb near-disaster over North Carolina – declassified document (click here)
This document was written on 22 October 1969 by Parker F Jones, the supervisor of the nuclear weapons safety department at Sandia national laboratories. The document has recently been declassified having been acquired under freedom of information provisions by the investigative reporter Eric Schlosser for his new book Command and Control. It is published here for the first time....
