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The U.S. Almost Nukes Itself (1961)

This Day

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Is This Necessary?

The defense department has disclosed 32 broken arrow incident between 19 50 and 19 80. 21 of these clas classified ones have been aircraft related incidents. A worker at a missile silo in arkansas dropped a wrench, and the wrench then ended up piercing part of the silo,. And it was, again, right on the knife's edge of basically wiping out much of the midwest of this country. It should give a lot of people pause about, is this necessary? Are we even doing this?

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