Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

March 27, 1954 at Bikini Atoll, the United States conducted Castle ROMEO, its third-largest thermonuclear test (11 Megatons, a proof test of the Mk-17 bomb) and the first set off on a barge because testing was rapidly vaporizing the atoll’s coral islands.



Within a month, the United States had manufactured and deployed five EC-17 (Emergency Capability) prototype thermonuclear bombs based on the Runt 1 device (below). These remained in the stockpile until October 1954, when they were withdrawn and replaced by the 13.5-Megaton Mk-17.



The EC-17 was a free-fall bomb. It had  inherently dangerous arming and fuzing systems and no drogue parachute to slow its descent. Given the bomb’s yield, the lack of a parachute would have ensured the destruction of the delivery aircraft, a B-36 bomber (Peacemaker) had it ever been used.


The Last B-36






What ever happened with that nuclear base where they found the MDMA lab?


Belgium busts illegal drug lab on airbase housing US nukes




At least we have this screen shot:




Someone needs to empty the Guardian Jakes house.




For posterity's sake...


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More ecstasy, less nukes. Nukes and Rave clubs, what could go wrong. Maybe the Belgians were trying to resurrect a Gatecrasher night club. lol. Secret rave at the nuclear arsenal batcave, hit me up for details.



David Mattingly cover art for The World Next Door by Brad Ferguson, 1990 novel.