Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Only in Vegas!





Reading/thinking about the nuke theatrics put on back in the 50s + Civil Defense Administration + endless Duck 'n Cover drills, parades, MAD dancers, films, songs, etc...flash forward to the Ukraine war theatrics & endless media propaganda. Will the Green man open the Ukraine for tourism this summer? I wanna see a live demo of all that artillery shelling!


The Mob Museum
National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement
April 21, 1952

I, having read all the dispatches sent out by corespondents and listened to all of the AEC propaganda, sincerely believe in the existence of the A-Bomb.

Read this one, LOL!





May 22, 1957: a 13.5-Megaton Mark-17 thermonuclear bomb (minus its nuclear capsule) being transported aboard a B-36 bomber from Biggs AFB, Texas, to Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, accidentally fell through the bomb bay doors as the B-36 approached Albuquerque.



Although the ~42,000-pound bomb's retardation parachute deployed, it landed hard, causing its conventional high explosives to detonate, shattering the weapon into numerous fragments, and blasting a crater 12 feet deep and 25 feet wide. Shrapnel was later found nearly a mile away.

Capt. Richard Meyer glanced out the cockpit and saw black smoke rising from the desert. Controllers at Kirtland AFB saw it too and radioed, “Do you have ‘hot cargo’ aboard?,” obliquely referring to the massive weapon it was carrying moments earlier. “Not anymore,” replied Meyer.
Bombs Away!

To reassure the public, Air Force officials insisted the explosion was minor and "categorically denied that it was any type of nuclear weapon." It only revealed the truth behind this Broken Arrow in 1986, in response to a FOIA request from Albuquerque Journal.

Accident Revealed After 29 Years : H-Bomb Fell Near Albuquerque in 1957




Considering how many nuclear accidents and near misses on USA side (mostly Air Force that we know of), have other nuclear states ever shared their nuclear "mishaps" and close calls?

Only a few, and sporadically, and not in as much detail. And generally only when they could not be covered up (such as when the Royal Navy's HMS Vanguard and the French Navy's Le Triomphant ballistic missile submarines collided in February 2009). This book has some useful details:

Broken Arrow - Vol II - A Disclosure of U.S., Soviet, and British Nuclear Weapon Incidents and Accidents, 1945-2008 (Amazon link)


For information on naval nuclear accidents worldwide, see this comprehensive (through 1988) chronology published by Greenpeace in 1989 as part of its Neptune Papers series in support of its Nuclear Free Seas Campaign:

Neptune Paper No. 3 : Naval Accidents 1945 - 1988 (PDF)


May 22, 1968: the USS Scorpion (SSN-589) sank mysteriously in about 10,000 feet of water in the Atlantic Ocean, about 400 nautical miles southwest of the Azores, with 99 crew and two Mark 45 ASTOR nuclear torpedoes (each armed with a 10-15 kiloton W34 warhead).



When the submarine failed to return as scheduled to Norfolk Naval Station, the Navy initiated a search, declaring the submarine and crew "presumed lost" on June 5. It was eventually found and photographed on the seabed in late October, and by the bathyscaphe Trieste II in 1969.

Subsequent official investigations as to the cause of the sinking were inconclusive. Among the possibilities: a hydrogen explosion during a battery charge, accidental activation of a Mark-37 torpedo, an explosion of a defective Mark-37 torpedo inside its tube, a detached propeller shaft, or a malfunctioning trash disposal unit. It is also possible that the Scorpion collided with a Soviet submarine (which did not sink) and that was later observed undergoing repairs.

General consensus seems to be batteries exploded, killing/incapacitating entire crew instantaneously, followed by violent implosion after it slowly sank to crush depth.

More recently, several authors have speculated the Scorpion was attacked and destroyed by a Soviet submarine while en route to or gathering intelligence on a Soviet naval flotilla operating near the Azores. 


May 22, 2020: the Trump administration announced its intention to unilaterally withdraw from the 1992 Open Skies Treaty, citing disinformation and lies about Russian compliance with the 35-nation agreement as justification (formal withdrawal took effect on Nov. 22, 2020).


Russia formally withdrew in December 2021.


10,000 bitcoins were used to buy two Papa John’s pizzas on May 22, 2010. Today, they'd be worth around $270 million.

They made a plaque at the Papa John’s in Jacksonville, Florida commemorating the purchase:






Jeff Bezos’ New Yacht Is Finally Ready to Set Sail (NYT archived)

When you see that rudder!




Nostalgia PSA's::

Public Information Film - Play Safe - Kite 1989


I’m not sure why British public information films were so much more solidly terrifying than the US counterparts, but there it is. The image of a flaming airborne teenager will forever haunt the dreams of young children unfortunate enough to witness this hardcore safety lesson.

Another variation, this time with football, is even more graphic.

Public Information Film - Play Safe - Football 1989


This time we get to see the charred remains up close and a young child bursting into flames. But both of these are only copycats to the original – Play Safe: Frisbee PSA. Let the nightmares begin...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KryOYburlFI