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**Ya_know** · September 30th, 2004, 10:49 AM

Originally Posted by ilovetheusers

Did I just read, one of 11 lost nuclear weapons? Um, after we los 1, didn't someone think that maybe that was way too ****ing many???

Yeah, that gave me a bit of a chill too...

**Major Kong** · September 30th, 2004, 11:25 AM

Y'all ain't never heard of the Broken Arrow? It's not a secret. If the term Broken Arrow bothers ya then y'all better not look up Bent Spear or Empty Quiver.
The DoD even has a directive defining what a nuclear weapons accident is. You can read up on it at... http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/c...tml/523016.htm (fun reading

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**Ya_know** · September 30th, 2004, 12:00 PM

Originally Posted by Major Kong

Y'all ain't never heard of the Broken Arrow? It's not a secret. If the term Broken Arrow bothers ya then y'all better not look up Bent Spear or Empty Quiver.
The DoD even has a directive defining what a nuclear weapons accident is. You can read up on it at... http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/c...tml/523016.htm (fun reading

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It's one thing to have the terms, it another thing to have one of 11 as part of a disscussion still at large for over 50 years...that's scary! 11!

**Major Kong** · September 30th, 2004, 12:38 PM

Originally Posted by Ya_know

It's one thing to have the terms, it another thing to have one of 11 as part of a disscussion still at large for over 50 years...that's scary! 11!

Ya have to turn it around Ya_Know. It's because we have the "11" that brought about the terms.

Actually though we have 11 missing bombs there have been several "Broken Arrows" that have been recovered. Three incidents come to mind:

Palomares, Spain in 1966
Thule AFB - Greenland in 1968
Lakenheath Air Base, Suffolk, England - 1956 (actually these were ground based, a B-47 crashed into a weapons bunker where 3 A-Bombs were stored, this one had the makings of a major aw crap).