North Carolina nearly nuked.

or they are parroting a standard line about how hard it is to set off an implosion bomb accidentally, because all of the lenses need to detonate at exactly the same time. Which is sometimes the right approach (though not all American bomb designs were “one-point safe” — that is, there were designs that ran a real risk of producing a nuclear yield even if just one of the explosive lenses accidentally fired),

It’s a film for internal consumption by a nuclear weapons laboratory. So it’s hard to not take this as authoritative, along with the other aforementioned document.

fact that this is what the nuclear weapons designers tell themselves about this accident.

This one’s interesting because it embeds these accidents in a context as well — the possibility of either us, or the Soviets, accidentally launching a nuke and wondering if a full-scale nuclear exchange has to follow

Wellerstein's blog wrote:

Mr. McNamara went on to describe the possibilities which existed for an accidental launch of a missile against the USSR. He pointed out that we were spending millions of dollars to reduce this problem to a minimum, but that we could not assure ourselves completely against such a contingency. Moreover he suggested that it was unlikely that the Soviets were spending as much as we were in attempting to narrow the limits of possible accidental launch. He went on to describe crashes of US aircraft[,] one in North Carolina and one in Texas, where, by the slightest margin of chance, literally the failure of two wires to cross, a nuclear explosion was averted.

So what happened with the "close call" in Texas?!?

November 4, 1958 / B-47 / Dyess AFB, near Abilene, Texas

A B-47 caught fire on takeoff. Three crewmen ejected successfully; one was killed when the aircraft crashed from an altitude of 1,500 feet. One nuclear weapon was aboard the plane; the resultant detonation of its HE made a crater 35 feet in diameter and six feet deep. There was some local contamination; nuclear materials were recovered intact near the crash site.

The conventional explosives went off but no nuclear explosion so a real life example that in order to get such a nuclear explosion you need everything to work as design within nanoseconds.

He's not asserting anything...

... the proof is that there has never been an accidental nuclear explosion in the history of nuke weapons in the US. The safeguards work, because they are simply safeguards. It takes more than one person to trigger a device. That makes it impossible for one crazy nut to set off a nuclear device.

Where do you learn your information about nukes? From comic books?

The assumptions you make about nuclear weapons are from the same basis you want others to prove there is no god. Hopeless.

I'd even venture to say they have better safeguards today than when I worked with them fifty years ago.

Yes he can! Where's your proof/evidence that it can?

You do know what "proof/evidence" is don't you? Please provide your proof?

My proof of what?

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My proof of what?

That implosion plutonium base nuclear weapons can go off if everything does not function correctly in time units of nanoseconds just to start with.

Frank plays dumb when he can't answer simple questions. Typical.

I bet most everyone else understands the question.

"Where's the proof/evidence that a nuclear weapon will detonate in the US?"

How does anyone prove god does not exist?

LOL Frank doesn't even understand logic 101.

Frank, Playing dumb again. We're talking about a nuclear explosion. I've already said that it's possible for a conventional explosion several pages back.

We're talking about nuclear weapon's safeguards against nuclear explosions in the US.

dummy.....or stupid. Any one is POSSIBLE.

Or are you saying that there has never been a nuclear explosion in the United States?

you are talking about accidental nuclear weapons safeguards.

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Or are you saying that there has never been a nuclear explosion in the United States?

Never been an accidental nuclear weapon explosion in the US or anywhere else for that matter!!!!!!!

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you are talking about accidental nuclear weapons safeguards.

Due to their very nature they are inherently as safe as any other type of weapons devices/system mankind have ever come up with in relationship to accidental operations.

Then you placed engineering safeguards on top of these inherently safe devices.

That took a bit of time...but you finally got to include the word "accidental."

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That took a bit of time...but you finally got to include the word "accidental."

!!!!!!!!! The subject of this thread concerned an accident that involved a nuclear weapon so what the hell are you talking about??????

The conventional explosives went off but no nuclear explosion so a real life example that in order to get such a nuclear explosion you need everything to work as design within nanoseconds.