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Today, June 9th is Donald Duck Day.



Fire Power Friday:

USS Missouri (BB-63) "Mighty Mo" was the only Iowa-class battleship not to have a turret altered in the 1950s for W23 "Katie" nuclear projectiles. All the W23 projectiles (only 50) were withdrawn from service in 1962. The W23 was 16 inches (406 mm) in diameter and 64 inches (160 cm) long, with a weight given variously as 1,500 or 1,900 pounds (680 or 860 kg) in reference sources. As with the W19, yield was 15-20 kilotons and world's largest nuclear artillery.



There could be a fun episode about all the oddball nuclear weapons. Like the nuclear rifle "The Davy Crockett", Atomic Annie 280mm nuclear cannon, the air to air unguided nuclear "Genie" rocket, the nuclear torpedo, the W54 Special Atomic Demolition Munition "Dam Buster" and now this nuke projectile.




June 9, 1931, the Parthian-class sub HMS Poseidon (P99) collided with a steamship and sank in the Yellow Sea. 21 crew members died in the accident. While doing research on potential dive sites in 2006, scuba instructor/journalist Steven Schwankert discovered that the Chinese had secretly raised the Poseidon in 1972.


And what exactly were the Chicoms caught doing very recently?!



National Archives





Cosmic Luck: NASA’s Apollo 11 Moon Quarantine Broke Down


Now you know what's in store for the summer...more of the same.


Hilarious comments




BTW, the Mickey Mouse organization is apparently very real.


The job description for the Disney Global Intelligence and Threat Analysis gig is incredible. Top Secret Counter Terrorism duties sandwiched in-between openers and closers that talk about Disney magic and their humble origins as an animation studio.

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