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July 27, 1956: The day England almost went up in a mushroom cloud.



Ok, not really, but almost a big firecrackin boom!

The crash occurred at Lakenheath Royal Air Force Station. 20 miles northeast of Cambridge, England. The plane was part of the 307th Bombardment Wing and had recently come from Lincoln Air Force Base, Nebraska. As part of what was called "Operation Reflex," B-47 bombers were regularly rotated, usually on a 90-day basis, to bases in the United Kingdom and North Africa. In the storage igloo were three Mark 6 nuclear bombs, each 12 feet long and 6 feet in diameter. Each bomb had about 8,000 lbs. of TNT as part of its trigger mechanism. The blazing jet fuel did not ignite the TNT and was extinguished by the base fire fighters. The four crewmen [of the aircraft] were killed. "It is possible that a part of Eastern England would have become a desert" had the TNT exploded and showered radioactive materials over a wide area, said a now retired Air Force general who was in the U.K. at the time. "It was a combination of tremendous heroism, good fortune and the will of God," said a former Air Force officer who was on the scene.

It is not clear when American nuclear weapons were first deployed to Europe.

The Broken Arrow Project

The Mark 6 "60-inch nuclear bomb" was the first atomic bomb to be mass produced by the United States, designed to be delivered by the heavy bombers of the Strategic Air Command and employed against strategic military targets only. Basically an improved version of the plutonium fission "Fat Man" bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, lighter, but much higer Yield between 120-150 Kilotons. The last Mark VI was retired from stockpile inventory in 1962 and their nuclear material recycled into the more powerful H-bombs.



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DARPA rebooting an old project...

In less than three years, NASA could be testing a nuclear rocket in space.
The space agency and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, announced on Wednesday that Lockheed Martin had been selected to design, build and test a propulsion system that could one day speed astronauts on a trip to Mars.

BWX Technologies, based in Lynchburg, Va., will build the nuclear fission reactor at the heart of the engine.

The $499 million program is named DRACO, short for the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations.

The DRACO engine would consist of a nuclear reactor that would heat hydrogen from a chilly minus 420 degrees Fahrenheit to a toasty 4,400 degrees, with the hot gas shooting from a nozzle to generate thrust. Greater fuel efficiency could speed up journeys to Mars, reducing the amount of time astronauts spend exposed to the treacherous environment of deep space.

NY Times (archived)

The project was canned because it was insanely dangerous. Gotta luv them space acronyms. Nobody knows and those that know aren't talking so maybe after decades of Nazi development we might see some X-tech rollout..in Space of course, where we can't see.

Any comments, guys...



Yea, I didn't think so.


October Draconids are coming...

"Seeing the DRACO images of Didymos for the first time, we can iron out the best settings for DRACO and fine-tune the software," said Julie Bellerose, the DART navigation lead at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "In September, we'll refine where DART is aiming by getting a more precise determination of Didymos' location."

NASA spacecraft set to intentionally crash into an asteroid to help save Earth

Draco Lucius Malfoy was a British pure-blood wizard of the Sacred Twenty-Eight.

Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus = “Never Tickle a Sleeping Dragon.”


Extreme dying empire energy coming from the US gubermint...