Monday, April 3, 2023

Was There A U.S. Nuclear Weapons Accident At Vokel Air Base In The Netherlands?

Did the U.S. Air Force suffer a nuclear weapons accident at Volkel Air Base?  

Federation Of American Scientists: Was There a U.S. Nuclear Weapons Accident At a Dutch Air Base? 

Did the U.S. Air Force suffer a nuclear weapons accident at an airbase in Europe a few years back? [Update: After USAFE and LANL initially declined to comment on the picture, a Pentagon spokesperson later clarified that the image is not of an actual nuclear weapons accident but of a training exercise, as cautioned in the second paragraph below. The spokesperson declined to comment on the main conclusion of this article, however, that the image appears to be from inside an aircraft shelter at Volkel Air Base.] 

A photo in a Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) student briefing from 2022 shows four people inspecting what appears to be a damaged B61 nuclear bomb. The document does not identify where the photo was taken or when, but it appears to be from inside a Protective Aircraft Shelter (PAS) at Volkel Air Base in the Netherlands. 

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Update #1: ‘Damaged nuclear bomb’ at Dutch base was dummy weapon, Pentagon says (The Guardian)  

Update #2: Pictured: Nuclear bomb at air base appears to have been twisted by impact (The Telegraph)  

WNU Editor: The Pentagon is denying these reports. But it is clear in the above picture that this particular bomb looks damaged.

6 comments:

Jac said...

The problem is news against America are always highlighted. Is these problems are never happen in other countries? of course yes but never reported.

Anonymous said...

There is the envelope for the air frame and then there is the envelope for the payload. Breaking the former does not necessarily break the latter.


Suppose you get into a car crash the the grillwork is smashed into the engine block. Scratch one car. But if the passenger compartment is intact, your good usually.

Suppose Jac is right ...

America is more open than Russia for now. We have about 2 years to catch up with the reprobates in the Kremlin

However, the tards in Dc are catching up.

Biden’s Coup in Israel

Who is pulling the puppet strings in Washington, DC?

Welcome to the Banana Republic of America

Russia is going to fall first, but it is really looking f_cking bleak.

They ran Fetterman, Feinstein and Biden. McCain and Kennedy held their seatts uib cancer forced them to "until death do us part"


"Ben Ray Luján, a Democratic senator from New Mexico, suffered a stroke in January. He underwent surgery and returned to work full time about a month later. Another Democratic senator, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, was hospitalized for a stroke ...

Former Illinois Senator Mark Kirk ran for reelection in 2016 after a severe stroke left the Republican wheelchair-bound and partially paralyzed. He spent a year in recovery, absent from the Senate, after the 2012 stroke."

https://www.newsweek.com/not-just-john-fetterman-senators-who-had-strokes-office-1755257

F*cking bleak

Soon corpses will be ran for office.

Hans Persson said...

Great! They can't wait to bump around nukes too

Anonymous said...

"There’s an anecdote about Dick Cheney back in 1989, when he was first secretary of defense, being shown on the computer screen a simulation of what it would look like. They just nuke Moscow hundreds of times over, and Dick Cheney finally says, That’s enough. Turn this off, and wanted it redone because it was just completely insane."

- Excerpt from Scott Horton's book Hotter Than The Sun

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It's almost guaranteed that this kind of stuff happens from time to time in Russia as well. I have no doubt that when something like this does happen there is no real danger. It would take nothing short of a miracle for one of these things to detonate unintentionally. Still, it's one reason among many why arsenals of thousands of warheads are retarded. Both Russian and American arsenals are way beyond "deterrent" levels. The associated costs and increased risks aren't worth it, when after the first thousand warheads you're just bouncing rubble.


Anonymous said...

Building yet another one beyond deterrent level is another way of showing you are serious all over again. It makes sense when the other side has not got the message ... and they haven't

If they had Georgia would not have been invaded. Estonia would not have been attacked, Ukraine would not have been invaded.

Anonymous said...

Wow (2:05) that is the first time in a long time that anyone said anything good about Cheney.

If Cheney said that he deserves kudos despite his wretched daughter.