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The 1965 Searcy missile silo fire was an uncontrolled fire inside a Titan II missile silo near Searcy, Arkansas on August 9, 1965. The fire broke out while the missile silo was being renovated and improved; the missile was installed and fueled at the time, although the nuclear warhead had been removed. [1]
The M65 atomic cannon, often called Atomic Annie, [6]: 92 was an artillery piece built by the United States and capable of firing a nuclear device. It was developed in the early 1950s, at the beginning of the Cold War; and fielded between April 1955 and December 1962, in West Germany, South Korea and on Okinawa.
In the 1990s, two men, Captain Thomson and Lt O'Donnell, are trapped in a nuclear missile silo with war looming. They receive an alarm and lose contact outside the silo. Thomson thinks they need to fire the missile.
When Hawaii's ballistic missile threat system blared across the state on January 13, many people didn't know where to go, what to do, or if they could even survive a nuclear attack.. For 38 ...
"On 7 June 1960, an explosion in a helium tank between the missile's fuel tanks [8] took place in Shelter 204 causing a fire in a liquid-fueled, nuclear-tipped BOMARC missile. The fire burned uninhibited for about 30 minutes. Firefighting activities, using water as a suppressant, were conducted for 15 hours.
The E-4B "Nightwatch" is nicknamed the "doomsday plane" because it can survive a nuclear attack. In the event of nuclear war, it would serve as the US military's command and control center.
Yamaguchi became a vocal proponent of nuclear disarmament. [11] He told an interviewer, "The reason that I hate the atomic bomb is because of what it does to the dignity of human beings." [11] Speaking through his daughter during a telephone interview, he said, "I can't understand why the world cannot understand the agony of the nuclear bombs ...
The Australian government said on Saturday it had for the first time test-fired a Raytheon SM-6 missile from a Navy ship, a major step in acquiring and integrating the air-defence weapon into its ...