2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident

afpx•about 13 hours ago

There have been 32 officially acknowledged US nuclear weapon accidents, known as "Broken Arrows," between 1950 and 1980, involving events such as accidental launching, firing, theft, or loss. Of these, six nuclear weapons have been lost and never recovered. These incidents involved plane crashes, fire, or accidental drops.

The fact that Human incompetence hasn't wiped us out yet is a big reason why I believe in God.

recursivecaveat•about 11 hours ago

Personally I feel the long term outlook is not good. We've already had a number of near misses, even though the number of countries with nuclear arsenals is likely as low as it will ever be, and no nuclear armed state has yet gone through a serious civil or genuinely existential state of war to my knowledge. At least the number of warheads is way down since the Cold war. There's no real end in sight though. We just have to keep getting lucky until we're probably an interstellar civilization to be reasonably free of a nuclear self-extinction risk.

dmd•about 13 hours ago

The anthropic principle is all you need. We find ourselves on a timeline where we survived because we can’t find ourselves on one we didn’t.

afpx•about 12 hours ago

At a certain point, I realized my choices were solipsism, deism, or autolatry. My dad raised me as a atheist secular materialist, and I was never allowed to read about Christianity. Out of curiosity, I read the gospels a few years ago and was shocked to discover that it was the best fit for my disposition at least. At first, I just LARPed it, but after a while I realized that I felt really good, and it got me out of lifelong dispair.

afpx•about 9 hours ago

At first the cognitive dissonance was real. But, eventually, I realized that it was the process of exercising and opening the "Nous". I'm neurodivergent so it is really awesome to outsource a large part of my thinking to a "Christ disciple" game loop. Lot less stress.

roflburger•about 12 hours ago

In Christian Slater we trust. For those non boomers who don't get the reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Arrow_(1996_film)

shishy•about 3 hours ago

i used to watch this on repeat when i was a kid. it makes for a great christmas movie these days :)

java-man•about 15 hours ago

Was there a report that they landed with 5?

2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident

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