Stay Safe, Stay Strong: The Facts About Nuclear Weapons (1960)

Instructional film on nuclear weapons for U.S. Air Force personnel. This part-animated film includes an explanation of nuclear physics; footage of atmospheric and underground testing; and a bomber making a crash landing.

[@robforrester3727]

Ken Nordine narrates. The greatest of voice-over actors.

[@1bottlejackdaniels]

check the documentary "broken arrows & incidents" ...more details and footage about nuclear accidents!

[@darcywiley5096]

Try reading the book: "Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety". It will make your hair stand on end when you realize just how close we've been to disaster - and just how often.

[@darcywiley5096]

The narrator talks about the chance of an accident being virtually nonexistent. The year after this film came out a B-52 crashed and all but one safety device failed on a pair of 2.4 megaton bombs.

[@JosephDAndrea0121]

But.... That last one didn't fail. Really though, nothing is full proof plain and simple.

[@darcywiley5096]

One of the bombs went through it's entire arming sequence to the point of sending the detonation signal to the core. It was only stopped because the safe/arm switch was still set to "safe". The second bomb's switch was found set to "arm" and it could have easily been shorted out.

[@grobbs666]

But it didn't. That's the point of the safety devices. They did their job perfectly, did they not?

[@markwelch1125]

Now is this how it is in 2023,please explain

[@RavenBlaze]

They are un-armed so if a few accidentally falls out of the plane they won't wipe out Spain...but who needs Spain anyway!...I wish I was joking about the bombs accidentally falling out of the plane...and Spain, you have great Tempranio!

[@lwnf360]

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