The U.S. — a nation that often declares its own citizens too irresponsible to own a hunting rifle — has had 32 nuclear weapons accidents since 1950, e.g. accidental launches, radioactive contamination, etc. These events are called “Broken Arrows.”
In the 1996 film, Broken Arrow, a character announces: “I don't know what's scarier, losing nuclear weapons, or that it happens so often there's actually a term for it.”
All told, the U.S. has lost and never recovered at least six and possibly as many as 50 nuclear weapons.
At the very minimum, one of these Broken Arrows was capable of a nuclear detonation.
Reminder: The psychopaths in charge are not evil geniuses. They’re just evil — which means they can and will be outsmarted and defeated.
I live close to a mountain range(Manzanos-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manzano_Mountains) This is where they hollowed out part of one to store nukes, who knows how many? Near Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I live, and at one point in time, # 10 on a list of targeted cities during the during the decades long Cold War. I hiked close to there once and was met by a truck full of yahoos(scary dudes wearing black) telling me to stay at least a mile away from the 7 layer barbed wire fences surrounding that part of the mountain. Oh, yeah, I had a high power hunting rifle with me at the time.
So far I haven't started glowing yet so I guess the nukes are still there in one piece. Peace
Gives you warm fuzzies how the people in charge of these things can "lose" them.
In 2007, six nuclear armed cruise missiles, each ten times stronger than the Hiroshima bomb were "accidentally" loaded on a B-52 in North Dakota and flown to Louisiana. They were left unguarded for over 20 hours. Interesting.