Doomsday Symbolic Clock

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The Doomsday Clock was moved from 100 seconds to 90 seconds to midnight today, Jan. 24, the closest it's ever been to Armageddon. Should have been mothballed 30 years ago.







Subspecies of psychic mutant-humans:



The Alpha-Omega The 'Divine Bomb'



To read the reasoning behind the decision of the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board to reset the Doomsday Clock, which takes into account nuclear risks, climate change, biological threats (especially disease outbreaks), and disruptive technologies, see lords of doom: (now translated in Russian & Ukrainian)


Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists




BBC Doomsday



Barron's





Today in 1961—less than four days after President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration—a B-52G bomber on airborne alert over North Carolina suffered a massive fuel leak, caught fire, and exploded approaching Seymour Johnson AFB. As it broke up, two 3.8-Mt B39 Mod 2 H-bombs fell out. Only a single “simple, dynamo-technology, low voltage switch” kept it from detonating.

As the weapons broke free, three of four arming safety devices in one of the bombs were activated, causing it to run through all but one step of the arming sequence as it plunged to earth.

Unlike the first bomb, the second bomb’s parachute did not deploy. It broke up as it penetrated the sandy clay soil at about 700 mph, ~.75 miles from where the first bomb landed, in tobacco and cotton fields about 12 miles north of Goldsboro. This bomb was also partially armed.


Here is a good overview of this Broken Arrow excerpted from the Sandia National Laboratories 2010 documentary, “Always/Never: The Quest for Nuclear Safety, Control, and Survivability.”




As this simple simulation shows (and depending on the wind patterns the day of the accident), if even one of these nuclear weapons had exploded, it would have devastated eastern North Carolina and much of the eastern seaboard, changing US history forever.


NukeMap


In 2012, North Carolina's Our State Magazine published a retrospective on the accident which included first-person accounts from Adam Mattocks, a pilot on the flight, and Billy Reeves, who was an 18-year-old living outside of Faro and saw the plane crash:

The Night Hydrogen Bombs Fell Over North Carolina

In 2018, former explosive ordnance disposal technician Lt. Jack ReVelle (USAF, ret.) talked with the BBC about locating, defusing, and salvaging the two thermonuclear bombs involved in this very serious Broken Arrow accident.


Defusing Nuclear Bombs: The Goldsboro 'Broken Arrow'


Also in late 2018, ReVelle talked about his experiences at this nuclear weapons accident site with his daughter Karen for StoryCorps on National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition.”


8 Days, 2 H-Bombs, And 1 Team That Stopped A Catastrophe

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Continued...

After completing his work in North Carolina, the Air Force sent ReVelle to Christmas Island (Kiritimati) in the Pacific Ocean, where he witnessed the final 25 (!) US atmospheric nuclear weapons tests from May 19 to November 4, 1962.


Jack and the Demon Core

Around 2014, ReVelle was diagnosed with Myeloid Dysplastic Syndrome, a rare blood cancer. His doctors believed it was likely caused by exposure to ionizing radiation during his military service. ReVelle filed a claim with the VA for a service-connected disability. It was denied.

In Mar. 2019, a local newspaper covered ReVelle’s plight, which sadly is not uncommon for atomic veterans. Then 83, he was recovering from a broken hip after falling at home. After Medicare refused to keep paying for hospital-based rehab, he was sent home.

Cold War hero who helped save the world battles for his health


In 2018, the Department of Veterans Affairs denied ReVelle’s appeal. In February 2020, the Board of Veterans Appeals—after reviewing extensive evidence assembled by his lawyers—finally granted his claim. But ReVelle died on January 26, 2020, just three weeks before that decision.

Snell & Wilmer pro bono appeal of the VA denial of Dr. Jack ReVelle’s veterans’ benefits (PDF)

At least he was spared from the Corona nightmare; he surely would have been 'ventilated'.


All in the Nuclear Family...

Father – Daughter duo make history

PINE BLUFFS, Wyo. -- For the last 64 years, sitting underground inside a concrete pill, F.E. Warren’s missileers have stood alert, responsible for the world’s premier nuclear arsenal 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Families of all kinds have served on F.E Warren, but never before have a father and daughter been together on alert in the capsule.

On Jan. 6, 2023, Lt. Col. Raymundo Vann Jr., and his daughter Capt. Gabriella Graham, stepped into the launch control capsule at Echo-01 missile alert facility and assumed the alert together.

The WC-135R Constant Phoenix 6414836 “nuclear sniffer” jet that last week flew down the east coast of South America is now making its way down the west coast. Don’t panic; possibly baseline calibration flights for the newly upgraded plane.