I feel like we’re lucky to have recovered as many “broken arrows” as we have. There have been 32 since 1950, but today there are (allegedly) only 6 nuclear weapons that are unaccounted for. That’s still too many, 1 is too many, but it’s nice to know that there aren’t enough to glass the whole country in one foul swoop. United States Air Defense is the best in the world. Honestly we could shoot down 6 nukes at once pretty easily. Nuclear fallout would still be pretty gnarly, but it’s better than the 100 foot deep baseball field size craters that the actual detonation would cause
He is running for a representative position of his district, I've been following him for a while now, and I wholeheartedly agree with the what and why he's doing it. It's just so strange to see Brandon Herrera fans on this channel lol
@@hakonsgaming535 yeah I’ve been following him for years. We seem to agree on most things. If he were running to represent my district in the senate I would vote for him
I never thought he would stray from being the cram Pranger trash down your throat. Swears he’s A political but all his stuff is right wing stuff he reviews. He’s teaching through the right wing view point. I’m on to you Terry. Trying to indoctrinate us through your teachings. Shame on you mister A political.
@@eancola6111 PrangerU is far from facts. He’s giving classes off a PrangerU video. PrangerU is established far right company. So what is facts about anything this MAGA tool teaches. He is indoctrinating all his viewers.
Former USAF Aircraft Armament Specialist here. Bombs have a specific arming sequence that includes a minimum travel distance (falling) after removal of all safety devices before they will explode. Even with all safety mechanisms removed, a standard 500 lb bomb can fall 6 ft with little to no chance of exploding (barring malfunctions).
I was a Navy airman, there was an incident when one of our ordinance dudes accidentally dropped a bomb while loading it onto the rail. Would have cleared a large portion of the flight deck if it had went off. The man was punished with a promotion to E-6
@@lordchaos3090 Somehow miraculously he made advancement from E-5 to E-6 on the next cycle. Nobody knew how it was possible, but everyone hated him for it
To answer the question of if a plane with nukes crashes would the nukes detonate: It’s unlikely that the nuclear components of the bomb would detonate, but the high explosive part of the bomb easily could detonate. It wouldn’t be a nuclear explosion, but it would scatter all of the highly radioactive materials all over the place. Same thing the Fat Electrician was talking about in Greenland basically.
It's what many suspect will happen with Russia's. They have probably not been maintained as well, so they'll probably just do that mostly. Not that anyone wants to find out.
Yeah, but in this case. The fail-safe mechanisms for both devices almost entirely failed, and all in different ways. No single mechanism was THE one that stopped detonation, and one was found with the main arm switch on. So you really are only as safe as human error. If all the fail-safes were off or failed, the computer would have triggered detonation, because that's what it's designed to do, they don't change their minds. Well supposedly. LOL. But in actuality, maybe they just decided NOT to blow up in this case. Since they didn't trigger, and at least just one fail-safe worked as intended. Had control of their nuclear temper that day.
Yeah but the thing is each one of them almost blew up. I believe 3 out of 4 safety switches was triggered except each one was saved by a different switch not getting triggered.
Oppenheimer's theory that it would make war so horrific that people would stop is the same on Gatling had when he created the rotating barrel autoloader. An early machine gun. Because the frontal mass assault and calvery charge were the two default attack methods used by every military he figured no one would be dumb enough to send men against the storm of bullets his weapon would spray. He was wrong.
Hey Mr Terry! I’m actually from Goldsboro, NC (I’ve lived 2 miles from the bomb my whole life). This story has become somewhat of a legend. I’ve know people around here that are/were related to some of the volunteer firemen that showed up first to the crash. Of course the men in black came and ushered everyone away. The bomb is still here today they left most of it. It’s literally a patch of trees and bushes in the middle of a tobacco field. Lol. I was surprised to know this was classified till 2013 cause I have known this story my whole life and I’m 24. I’m not sure if he mentioned it but the Feds come by once a year and test the ground water for radiation. Nothings ever come out about the water quality but its kinda rumored/possibly true that lots of people in closerproximity to the bomb are getting cancer. The Historical marker sign is from the State of North Carolina itself. They have these everywhere across the state when there’s cool historical things (ie: Blackbeard things, wright brothers, etc). Sorry for the rant I just love sharing history about my state! Love the channel keep it up!
Brandon Herrera is one of my favorite channels that I could never have imagined you reaching to! He has lots of informative videos. Let's show AK Daddy some more love ❤️
I grew up in Wilson County, NC which is a neighboring county to Wayne where this happened. We heard stories growing up about the abandoned Nuke in the filed out in Eureka(closest town and location of the historical marker shown in the video). I half way thought it was just an urban legend until the declassified documents proved exactly how close it was to evaporating the area.
You should read "Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety" by Eric Schlosser it's a history of all the accident's with the US nuclear program ever since the Manhattan Project while mainly focusing on the incident of a missile accident in Damascus, AR
This guy is also running for congress in Texas so if you're in the 23rd district don't forget to vote!! It's funny you're watching all my favorite TH-camr's lately. Brandon doesn't do alot of the history content. He does alot more on gun design and development, gun meme reviews, Darwin awards, cursed gun images, and has a vendetta against white claw and a weird love for white claw as well.
@@mrcroob8563 also anti abortion, anti immigrant, advocates for 'family values' in school, and anti spending. His campaign page is like every right wing extremist dog whistle turned into a fucking pipe organ.
Nailed it lol, I wouldn't tell people how to vote, but you got most of his channel right, it's for gun nerds, and it's just fun, he gets a lot of weapons that are hard to find and does a deep dive on how the weapon works.
As per the nukes detonating: it usually does take a precise series of events in order to arm a nuclear warhead to detonate. It's all part of the failsafe procedures for them. *However,* if these nukes were part of Operation Chrome Dome, then it's very likely that some or even all of their arming procedures had been carried out, since they were part of a retaliatory plan against the USSR.
The primer head set off a primary explosion that sets off the bomb according to my great grandpa, I used to ask him all these questions when I was younger
If there's one channel you MUST review, you should try Forgotten Weapons. I can recommend a lot of episodes like FAL 1950s Trials, MAS 44/56 series, Lebel 1886, M14 E2. In each episode he doesn't just tell the gun's design specifications, but also the story behind the gun-- the designer's passions, the corporate or government bureaucracy, and its legacy. Not to mention, Ian McCollum is Gun JESUS. Maybe HE is the guy from HeLore.
That sign is a North Carolina Historical Highway Marker. We have them along highways throughput the state. Somewhere I have a state guidebook listing where to find these. They commentate events and locales that are significant in North Carolina history . I was in the second grade when this occurred and I can vaguely remember local TV news coverage about this incident. The bombs fell near the very small community of Faro, NC outside of Goldsboro, NC.
Just wait until you discover that both Brandon and Fat Electrician regularly go onto a podcast run by their buddies where they all get progressively more intoxicated as it goes on and you start to hear about the combat vet's stories alongside musings about history and anime...
My favorite Broken Arrow is that time the navy lost a nuclear depth charge. Not because it was lost in a particularly interesting way, but because the nuclear depth charges exist for some reason.
My elementary school was beneath the flight path of those B-52s of Operation Chrome Dome during the sixties. Nearby Carswell was a SAC base and the home of the 7th Bomb Wing. (The same place the Jimmy Stewart movie, Strategic Air Command, was filmed.) The B-52s made so much noise and daily disrupted the school day that the junior high school was moved underground. Construction was completed soon after the Cuban Missile Crisis, so the school board got a twofer. The 6th, 7th, and 8th graders could do their lessons in peace, and the neighborhood of River Oaks got a nuclear fallout shelter.
The crashing of a plane might be enough to detonate a weapon, there are electronic safeguards stoping the explosive charges from causing the device to go supercritical, but the forces involved in a crash are plenty to cause those to fail. We got super lucky.
Totally need to watch more of his videos. Especially the ones breaking down historical assassinations and historical weapons and such. Super interesting history and technology he goes into.
14:09 bombs could detonate the standard explosives, out of sequence. Resulting in a dirty bomb, or worse, a partial nuclear detonation. Unfortunately, the thermonuclear core could be detonated by a partial nuclear detonation. It takes a timed electric charge to detonate the standard explosives in a specific manner in order to compress the fissile material to the point of nuclear fission. This fission would then set off the fusion reaction.
To detonate a nuclear warhead. 5 volts. 0.5 amps. Your phone charger is more than enough. Withdraw the safty rods from the warhead. Activate the conventional explosives. Arm the warhead. Run. It won't help. But you might feel better
@alexfischer7876 is the amazing part. When a bommer crashed in north Carolina. It had 2 warheads on board. 3 safety measures failed on both warheads. It failed to detonate because the voltage was not there to detonate the conventionial explosive. Currently their are 7 nuclear bombs that are known to be un-found, missing from the arsonal. Some small enough to be in a pickup truck. Just remember your phone in your hand is 10 times the computer used in an Apollo rocket. It uses one onehundreth of the power to operate. The nuclear generator on any of the moon missions would power your home for 30 years. Nuclear power is safe. How about a Tesla, That could run for 60 years without stopping to charge. The same 50-pound generator could do that. It just could not survive a crash. Nuclear is safe. It can be clean. It is efficient. But it is fragile.
One thing to note about the relative power of nuclear weapons is that the scaling is not linear, when someone tells you that a megaton explosion is a thousand times more powerful than a kiloton they're technically correct but also being misleading (intentionally or not) while a megaton is a thousand times more energy, there are efficiencies involved and there's also the basic fact of the inverse square law which means that you hit exponentially diminishing returns very very quickly even in a perfect scenario. The practical upshot is that a bomb that 'a thousand times' more powerful is probably less than a dozen times more destructive.
Oh I think I remember this story, and plenty others. It's amazing how incompetent governments can be. There's also a video by lazerpig "America's missing nukes" where he goes over a whole list of nukes just grazing in the wild. It's pretty fun.
Didn't see that coming when the fat electrician swooped in!... And when you said Brandon gives off fat electrician vibes that should've been my heads up
Theres one video that has since been removed about the weapon that was used in the assassination of the japanese president where brandon built the gun and almost darwin awarded himself cause it went boom and not in the fun way
You are correct going full blast is not easy but an improper explosion turns it into a dirty bomb. Critical mass requires a focused explosion but speading the material is easy.
I’ve had the experience of going in a KC-135 from the Portland Oregon to refuel a B-52 over Utah. I was able to watch the entire process from next to the fuel boom operator. Watching the B-52 coming within range of the fuel boom was pretty nerve wrecking until they got into the proper positions. It was impressive to see just how it worked.
The marker is at the intersection of Main street and Church street in Eureka, north of Faro where the bomb was laid to rest. Go south on Church street and it becomes Faro road. The marker was placed by the NC government in 2012, and the text at the bottom says, "NORTH CAROLINA OFFICE OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY 2012" It wasn't really covered up super well, the local newspaper has stories, "Goldsboro News-Argus, January 24-26, 1961; January 23, 2011" and there were books in 1962, 1988, and 2011. The The North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources website has a database that has all historical markers in the state, a picture of them, location, and a more in depth story about the event the marker is referring to.
I love Brandon Herrera. Such a cool guy! Very funny and very informative. He has some reviews and breakdowns of old weaponry as well, which might be interesting to you Mr Terry, examples: "The M1 Garand - Feat. Garand Thumb" (US gun used in WWII and the Korean War - quite a funny video!), "Testing the Gun That Killed Abraham Lincoln", "German Machine Guns of World War II", "Germain Handguns of World War II", "Testing Joe Rogan's JFK Bullet Theory". There may be better ones I've not seen yet. I never thought I'd see Mr. Terry History and Brandon Herrera converge in this timeline, yet here we are. I'm not sure what this means about the timeline we're on, but ...I guess it's okay? 😬 FYI: Brandon is also running for Congress now. I'm from the UK so it doesn't affect me much, but he'd have my vote so far! lol
"I don't know what is more terrifying the fact that we have a missing nuclear weapon or that it happens so often we have a code name for it" Broken Arrow
I’ve always been of the impression that nukes will not detonate unless there is something specific done, something to the effect of they keep the primer or equivalent of the primer separate until ready to launch them for real for this exact scenario
I visited the plaque and the drop site of the actual bombs a month ago and it was wild to realize what almost happened there. Yeah the drop site is just farmland now as the full component was removed later so it's fully cleaned up now. Really one of the most moments of all time 😅
I really like Brandons channel, he has such a vast knowledge of guns. You sure can learn something about them from him. His puns are also great. This has to be one of the stupidest incidents in the history of our earth.
Check out the Damascus Arkansas titan missile explosion of 1980. "The History Guy" did an excellent video on it. I lived in Arkansas at this time. In fact, I was at the Razorback game in Little Rock with everyone else who had no clue what had happened. (We won, Yea!)
Remember many nuclear bombers also had fail-deadly devices, the opposite of fail-safe, meaning that if the plane gets destroyed (or sometimes even the act of going beneath a certain elevation) it would be assumed that this happened trough enemy interference, and as such the bombs were rigged to explode on their own.
A nuke was dropped in Mars Bluff, SC. They got an alarm that the bomb wasn’t secured, so the co pilot went to the bomb bay to check it, he pulled himself up, but grabbed the manual release. The bomb landed on a shed and exploded. The nuclear material was on board the aircraft, but not in the bomb. It injured several people on the ground, a World War II vet combat medic helped his children who were hurt. They sued the Air Force and settled for the injuries and property damage for quite a bit of money.
Unexploded Nuclear parts, fields of strawberries, moonshine, crazy brothers flying weight flying machines, a terrifying pirate with a shallow hulled ship, a dormant volcano in the mountain ridge...Some fun stuff happens in North Carolina
Imagine living somewhere for 30 years and then finding out that there was a nuclear missile silo hidden in your town disguised as a water tower… that you had no idea about … yeah.. that’s exactly what happened with us…
If I remember correctly, the secondary sparkplug of the second bomb was not found because it broke through the casing and continued its journey into the depths. The spark plug of the secondary is a rod of plutonium 239 which ensures that the secondary is compressed between the external ablative radiation implosion and the internal additional energy and source of additional fast neutrons
Airbase Johnson was part of Chrome Dome. Those switches were set to Armed before the blasted things left the ground because this is before we had reliable early warning set up. They launched expectung one day to be told "we just detected missiles crossing the pole, we will try to evacuate your families, good luck and godspeed".
For a nuke to detonate, a very specific conventional explosion is needed to compress the nuclear core halves together to start a chain reaction to glow oh so bright. So something like chernobyl wouldn't go full doomsday explosion like a weapon, that and the isotopes used are different
BTW, DEFCON 1 is nuclear war. The lower the number the closer you get to the world of Fallout. But the reason the US and the USSR never came to blows was because of these nukes. I’d rather be in a global Mexican standoff than having to storm the beaches of Normandy or Okinawa.
Pertaining the missing nukes, it's not my problem, can't do anything against/about it, and the devastation from one of them is so large, that if it would become my problem, it soon wouldn't be my problem anymore.
14:00 no, you need a specific order of operations for the nuclear part to start its reaction. you take away any part of the chain and its a normal bomb. you could hit it with another nukes and nothing would happen.
Love you and your takes, you are a light in a country which is at the moment going hard on something close to book burning. I am a Swedish fan, also loooooove that you have a 4p TMNT arcade game, used to ruin my weekly allowance on game tokens on that one, afterwards i joined the masses sticking around to watch the ones who knew how to complete the game without taking damage even once by doing two types of attacks and avoiding getting hit by standing just on the hitbox edge, hit once and the avoid getting hit by either going up, down or quickly just switching by turning around, on all mobs and all bosses. Ever played double dragon brother? another great game that you could beat with impeccaple timing, moving up, wait for mob/boss, elbow, move up or down, rince repeat until game over or the billy vs jimmy at the end of the game afer final boss. Anyways, you have a fan in Sweden who is rooting for ya, gotta be frustrated to teach history when getting ballgagged and forced to either white wash or simply not mention the things not portraying the pilgrims as anything but heroes and civilised people whom brought complete insanity in some cases:D /comfortbrohug Bless you/Solo
There are essentially 2 main ways to detonate the nuclear part of a nuclear device, the u235 gun-type, and the spherical implosion type. Both of these squeeze enough of the fissile material into a tight enough space to allow for supercriticality - where the neutrons released from one fissile atom are close enough to reach others frequently enough to cause an exponentially increasing chain reaction of more and more fission (ie. nuclear boom). The first type, as the name implies, is used with u235, and rams a small piece very fast into a large piece. The second type is fissile material wrapped in shaped conventional high explosive charges that are carefully timed to go off simultaneously and "squish" the material. We generally have moved to plutonium for all our vaporizing city needs. So that's where the "safety" comes in. A plane crash with a nuclear device does often detonate the conventional explosives that surround the plutonium core on impact, but you only impact one side, so no implosion happens and the plutonium just gets blasted with conventional high explosives from that one side. If it helps to visualize it, think of one of those stress balls you squeeze by wrapping your hand around it and pressing your fingers together. It only squeezes if you push all your fingers together around it. If you just push with one finger, it rolls off your hand and you have to pick it up off the floor. With nuclear devices, squeeze = nuclear boom. To be clear, that part is the fission, though. "Thermonuclear" refers to hydrogen fusion bombs which use that fission bomb to squish and heat heavy hydrogen isotopes to the point of fusing. But the "safety" relies on the fission not being a spherical implosion with accidental detonations. As for why I'm putting quotes around "safety", accidental detonations are basically a "dirty bomb", conventional explosions spreading highly radioactive material around as we saw in Greenland and Spain, for example.
Ugh... He's overstating the issue. If you take out the core, it is NOT a nuclear weapon anymore. As for the safeties, that is a potentially major issue when the plane is falling. These devices ONLY go nuclear if the electronic timing trigger detonates all the conventional explosives at the same time, and the safeties are to prevent arming that system. That system is triggered by electrical signals from either a timer or an altimeter because they are designed to have maximum effect at altitude. So falling from the air that's scary AF, and then there's a second slight scare when it impacts because there's a hypothetical risk of short the instant before the spherical explosives are no longer spherical shaped inside the bomb. Once it's impacted the ground at high speed, though, it is now at worst a dirty bomb. I do get that he's not familiar enough with this, and like the lieutenant in the story, just heard "scary boom device is armed" without knowing it wasn't capable of nuclear detonation at that point. But I can't handwave away him acting like it's still a nuclear threat with the core removed. EDIT: I also hate the false statement that "it happens so often we have a name for it". We have names for a LOT of nuclear weapons incidents that have never occurred. We culturally have "nuclear apocalypse" for an obvious example. And these official terms are generally created BEFORE they occur. For a military terminology example, "empty quiver" is the term for a functioning nuclear weapon being lost, which has never happened (all "broken arrow" incidents involve the nuclear weapon being damaged, so that 1996 film "Broken Arrow" would have been called "Empty Quiver" if they were being accurate rather than capitalizing on fears over broken arrow incidents).
14:06 imagine taking that picture. You live there. Whether you work for the press or the military, that’s just too close to your livelihood and families to approach, yet it must be moved. Even taking a photo would be scary. Thinking of the people responsible for it landing in civilian NC like that also trying to move it again is horrifying. And it’s not as simple as calling up your cousin Herb and having him shuttle the whole family all the way to California to “stay safe”
Fat Electrician did a video on the time Oregon Highway Dept blew up a whale. It's hilarious. I hadn't run across Brandon Herrera. Looks like he's in a gun shop. I'll have to check out his channel. This was interesting but somehow not surprising.
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Are we lucky the world hasn't had more nuclear accidents like this?
Yes, yes we are
Now you need to do lazerpig's video called america's missing nukes.
I feel like we’re lucky to have recovered as many “broken arrows” as we have. There have been 32 since 1950, but today there are (allegedly) only 6 nuclear weapons that are unaccounted for. That’s still too many, 1 is too many, but it’s nice to know that there aren’t enough to glass the whole country in one foul swoop. United States Air Defense is the best in the world. Honestly we could shoot down 6 nukes at once pretty easily. Nuclear fallout would still be pretty gnarly, but it’s better than the 100 foot deep baseball field size craters that the actual detonation would cause
At least that we know of.
I think we are lucky that of the many incidents that happened major catastrophe was not a result. So we got to remain ignorant of them.
Thanks for the reaction brother, glad you enjoyed it!
Hey! The legend himself!
Ayyy my boy!
Hello from the furry community, we all love the gun memes.
Pls win your congressional position.
Good luck in your run for congress
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@@SerialDesignationS-556wtf
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Never thought I would see Mr. Terry react to Brandon Herrera but I’m all for it! I hope he wins the congressional position he’s running for rn
YES
For real dude i clicked on this video so fast!
He is running for a representative position of his district, I've been following him for a while now, and I wholeheartedly agree with the what and why he's doing it. It's just so strange to see Brandon Herrera fans on this channel lol
eh, have you actually looked at his politics?
@@hakonsgaming535 yeah I’ve been following him for years. We seem to agree on most things. If he were running to represent my district in the senate I would vote for him
Never thought I'd see Mr. Terry reacting to Brandon Herrera and Fat Electrician, but I'm here for it.
I never thought he would stray from being the cram Pranger trash down your throat. Swears he’s A political but all his stuff is right wing stuff he reviews. He’s teaching through the right wing view point. I’m on to you Terry. Trying to indoctrinate us through your teachings. Shame on you mister A political.
@@mikemurray726 Alright..?
@@mikemurray726what??
@@mikemurray726Maybe it’s just the correct position, not everything is an opinion.
@@eancola6111 PrangerU is far from facts. He’s giving classes off a PrangerU video. PrangerU is established far right company. So what is facts about anything this MAGA tool teaches. He is indoctrinating all his viewers.
Former USAF Aircraft Armament Specialist here. Bombs have a specific arming sequence that includes a minimum travel distance (falling) after removal of all safety devices before they will explode. Even with all safety mechanisms removed, a standard 500 lb bomb can fall 6 ft with little to no chance of exploding (barring malfunctions).
I was a Navy airman, there was an incident when one of our ordinance dudes accidentally dropped a bomb while loading it onto the rail. Would have cleared a large portion of the flight deck if it had went off. The man was punished with a promotion to E-6
@@scottydu81 simply out curiousity what is with "promotion" meant?
@@lordchaos3090 Somehow miraculously he made advancement from E-5 to E-6 on the next cycle. Nobody knew how it was possible, but everyone hated him for it
@@scottydu81 I am so confused right now
To answer the question of if a plane with nukes crashes would the nukes detonate: It’s unlikely that the nuclear components of the bomb would detonate, but the high explosive part of the bomb easily could detonate. It wouldn’t be a nuclear explosion, but it would scatter all of the highly radioactive materials all over the place. Same thing the Fat Electrician was talking about in Greenland basically.
It's what many suspect will happen with Russia's. They have probably not been maintained as well, so they'll probably just do that mostly. Not that anyone wants to find out.
It would still be a dirty bomb though.
Yeah, but in this case. The fail-safe mechanisms for both devices almost entirely failed, and all in different ways. No single mechanism was THE one that stopped detonation, and one was found with the main arm switch on. So you really are only as safe as human error. If all the fail-safes were off or failed, the computer would have triggered detonation, because that's what it's designed to do, they don't change their minds.
Well supposedly. LOL. But in actuality, maybe they just decided NOT to blow up in this case. Since they didn't trigger, and at least just one fail-safe worked as intended. Had control of their nuclear temper that day.
right, it would basically be a dirty bomb instead of a nuclear one@@EricLing64
Yeah but the thing is each one of them almost blew up. I believe 3 out of 4 safety switches was triggered except each one was saved by a different switch not getting triggered.
Oppenheimer's theory that it would make war so horrific that people would stop is the same on Gatling had when he created the rotating barrel autoloader. An early machine gun.
Because the frontal mass assault and calvery charge were the two default attack methods used by every military he figured no one would be dumb enough to send men against the storm of bullets his weapon would spray. He was wrong.
This is an crossover I wasn’t expecting but I’m loving it
Hey Mr Terry! I’m actually from Goldsboro, NC (I’ve lived 2 miles from the bomb my whole life). This story has become somewhat of a legend. I’ve know people around here that are/were related to some of the volunteer firemen that showed up first to the crash. Of course the men in black came and ushered everyone away. The bomb is still here today they left most of it. It’s literally a patch of trees and bushes in the middle of a tobacco field. Lol. I was surprised to know this was classified till 2013 cause I have known this story my whole life and I’m 24. I’m not sure if he mentioned it but the Feds come by once a year and test the ground water for radiation. Nothings ever come out about the water quality but its kinda rumored/possibly true that lots of people in closerproximity to the bomb are getting cancer. The Historical marker sign is from the State of North Carolina itself. They have these everywhere across the state when there’s cool historical things (ie: Blackbeard things, wright brothers, etc). Sorry for the rant I just love sharing history about my state! Love the channel keep it up!
PS: It is also heavily believed here from word of mouth that they did not remove the core until 2013.
@@cameronmooring9659Why did it take them that long to remove the core? What a bunch of incompetent sad sacks of 💩, I'd be furious if I were you.
@@cameronmooring9659my fellow North Carolinian wuzz uppp
Spent some time at Wayne executive jet port and we used to joke that we just had to keep an eye out for glowing water from the tap.
Brandon Herrera is one of my favorite channels that I could never have imagined you reaching to! He has lots of informative videos. Let's show AK Daddy some more love ❤️
I grew up in Wilson County, NC which is a neighboring county to Wayne where this happened. We heard stories growing up about the abandoned Nuke in the filed out in Eureka(closest town and location of the historical marker shown in the video). I half way thought it was just an urban legend until the declassified documents proved exactly how close it was to evaporating the area.
You should read "Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety" by Eric Schlosser it's a history of all the accident's with the US nuclear program ever since the Manhattan Project while mainly focusing on the incident of a missile accident in Damascus, AR
Thanks for the rec!
C&C is a great read on how many near nuclear catastrophes we’ve dodged in the 60’s & 70’s.
As someone who lives in NC, this was something fascinating to learn about, especially as I wasn't around during the 60's when this happened.
This guy is also running for congress in Texas so if you're in the 23rd district don't forget to vote!! It's funny you're watching all my favorite TH-camr's lately. Brandon doesn't do alot of the history content. He does alot more on gun design and development, gun meme reviews, Darwin awards, cursed gun images, and has a vendetta against white claw and a weird love for white claw as well.
Just what we need another "you can take my assault rifle from my cold dead hands" texan how different!!
He has done some assassination reenactments of historical figures.
@@mrcroob8563 also anti abortion, anti immigrant, advocates for 'family values' in school, and anti spending. His campaign page is like every right wing extremist dog whistle turned into a fucking pipe organ.
Nailed it lol, I wouldn't tell people how to vote, but you got most of his channel right, it's for gun nerds, and it's just fun, he gets a lot of weapons that are hard to find and does a deep dive on how the weapon works.
He is also buddy buddy with Lauren Boebert and Matt Gaetz in more than just the 2nd ammendment. Do with this information as you will.
As per the nukes detonating: it usually does take a precise series of events in order to arm a nuclear warhead to detonate. It's all part of the failsafe procedures for them. *However,* if these nukes were part of Operation Chrome Dome, then it's very likely that some or even all of their arming procedures had been carried out, since they were part of a retaliatory plan against the USSR.
The primer head set off a primary explosion that sets off the bomb according to my great grandpa, I used to ask him all these questions when I was younger
If there's one channel you MUST review, you should try Forgotten Weapons. I can recommend a lot of episodes like FAL 1950s Trials, MAS 44/56 series, Lebel 1886, M14 E2. In each episode he doesn't just tell the gun's design specifications, but also the story behind the gun-- the designer's passions, the corporate or government bureaucracy, and its legacy. Not to mention, Ian McCollum is Gun JESUS. Maybe HE is the guy from HeLore.
Branden Herrera and the Fat Electrician are friends and have featured on different channels together.
Brandon and the fat electrician are awsome! I hope you keep reacting to both of them. Keep up the great work!
That sign is a North Carolina Historical Highway Marker. We have them along highways throughput the state. Somewhere I have a state guidebook listing where to find these. They commentate events and locales that are significant in North Carolina history . I was in the second grade when this occurred and I can vaguely remember local TV news coverage about this incident. The bombs fell near the very small community of Faro, NC outside of Goldsboro, NC.
Just wait until you discover that both Brandon and Fat Electrician regularly go onto a podcast run by their buddies where they all get progressively more intoxicated as it goes on and you start to hear about the combat vet's stories alongside musings about history and anime...
Love that podcast. It's literally like sitting down and chatting with my old military buds. lol
Also that Brandon is running for congress. Lol
Drunk history part1 and 2 are brilliant examples of that not family friendly but a great watch
Oh boy now that is epic im not huge on guntuber stuff but daddy Brendan is epic.
Enjoy your content as always teach keep it up
FYI: South Africa deserves mad respect for being the only nation to have independently developed nukes and then fully disarmed themselves.
Love that your reacting to people from the gun/military/police side of TH-cam
Like others have said never thought you'd react to Brandon. But it's cool to see.
Where history goes, I will follow.
My favorite Broken Arrow is that time the navy lost a nuclear depth charge. Not because it was lost in a particularly interesting way, but because the nuclear depth charges exist for some reason.
Bro the British were experimenting with nuclear landmines. There would have been a live chicken inside to keep the components from freezing.
My elementary school was beneath the flight path of those B-52s of Operation Chrome Dome during the sixties. Nearby Carswell was a SAC base and the home of the 7th Bomb Wing. (The same place the Jimmy Stewart movie, Strategic Air Command, was filmed.) The B-52s made so much noise and daily disrupted the school day that the junior high school was moved underground. Construction was completed soon after the Cuban Missile Crisis, so the school board got a twofer. The 6th, 7th, and 8th graders could do their lessons in peace, and the neighborhood of River Oaks got a nuclear fallout shelter.
He was basically saying that it’s lucky the conventional explosive didn’t go off because that would spread plutonium everywhere
This is the most beautiful collaboration I've ever seen on TH-cam
Seeing you react to Brandon Herrera is a dream come true. I absolutely love his videos
The crashing of a plane might be enough to detonate a weapon, there are electronic safeguards stoping the explosive charges from causing the device to go supercritical, but the forces involved in a crash are plenty to cause those to fail. We got super lucky.
Totally need to watch more of his videos. Especially the ones breaking down historical assassinations and historical weapons and such. Super interesting history and technology he goes into.
14:09 bombs could detonate the standard explosives, out of sequence. Resulting in a dirty bomb, or worse, a partial nuclear detonation. Unfortunately, the thermonuclear core could be detonated by a partial nuclear detonation.
It takes a timed electric charge to detonate the standard explosives in a specific manner in order to compress the fissile material to the point of nuclear fission. This fission would then set off the fusion reaction.
To detonate a nuclear warhead. 5 volts. 0.5 amps. Your phone charger is more than enough. Withdraw the safty rods from the warhead. Activate the conventional explosives. Arm the warhead. Run. It won't help. But you might feel better
Meaning that uranium / plutonium container can be triggered easily, and safety disengages, and...
*_*shudders in terror*_*
@alexfischer7876 is the amazing part. When a bommer crashed in north Carolina. It had 2 warheads on board. 3 safety measures failed on both warheads. It failed to detonate because the voltage was not there to detonate the conventionial explosive. Currently their are 7 nuclear bombs that are known to be un-found, missing from the arsonal. Some small enough to be in a pickup truck. Just remember your phone in your hand is 10 times the computer used in an Apollo rocket. It uses one onehundreth of the power to operate. The nuclear generator on any of the moon missions would power your home for 30 years. Nuclear power is safe. How about a Tesla, That could run for 60 years without stopping to charge. The same 50-pound generator could do that. It just could not survive a crash. Nuclear is safe. It can be clean. It is efficient. But it is fragile.
One thing to note about the relative power of nuclear weapons is that the scaling is not linear, when someone tells you that a megaton explosion is a thousand times more powerful than a kiloton they're technically correct but also being misleading (intentionally or not) while a megaton is a thousand times more energy, there are efficiencies involved and there's also the basic fact of the inverse square law which means that you hit exponentially diminishing returns very very quickly even in a perfect scenario. The practical upshot is that a bomb that 'a thousand times' more powerful is probably less than a dozen times more destructive.
Oh I think I remember this story, and plenty others. It's amazing how incompetent governments can be. There's also a video by lazerpig "America's missing nukes" where he goes over a whole list of nukes just grazing in the wild. It's pretty fun.
Brandon Herrera? What Is This, a Crossover Episode?
What a crazy story. It's insane how well mishaps like this can be covered up!
Humans tend to enjoy dancing on the razor's edge of extinction, so much so that we enjoy playing chicken on that edge.
Brandon Herrera for US Congress.🇺🇲🇺🇲
19:04 the state of North Carolina actually erected that sign. The state has thousands of these marking historical events and places around the state!
Holy cow! I didnt think this day would come! How did i miss this!?
Broken Arrow was also a movie. Howie Long, John Travolta, and Christian Slater. I need to rewatch the dvd later.
Didn't see that coming when the fat electrician swooped in!... And when you said Brandon gives off fat electrician vibes that should've been my heads up
Theres one video that has since been removed about the weapon that was used in the assassination of the japanese president where brandon built the gun and almost darwin awarded himself cause it went boom and not in the fun way
You are correct going full blast is not easy but an improper explosion turns it into a dirty bomb. Critical mass requires a focused explosion but speading the material is easy.
I'm pretty interested, what was your first reaction to that gunwall behind him, and most importantly mostly Russian weapons.
Fun fact about brandon herrera and the fat electrician:
they're pretty good friends.
I’ve had the experience of going in a KC-135 from the Portland Oregon to refuel a B-52 over Utah. I was able to watch the entire process from next to the fuel boom operator. Watching the B-52 coming within range of the fuel boom was pretty nerve wrecking until they got into the proper positions. It was impressive to see just how it worked.
The scary thing isn’t that we’ve lost a nuclear weapon, the scary thing is that it happened so much that we have a name for it.
I saw that movie too
This is not the crossover I expected but it is the one we needed
I live in North Carolina, have my entire life. I was born in 89 and this happened in the 60's, but this is the first I'm ever hearing of it.
They're all accounted for. 8:10. Dismantled into more usable pieces, mostly by sia.
Herrara for Congress! Also, the crash was hundreds of miles from any mountains.
The marker is at the intersection of Main street and Church street in Eureka, north of Faro where the bomb was laid to rest. Go south on Church street and it becomes Faro road.
The marker was placed by the NC government in 2012, and the text at the bottom says, "NORTH CAROLINA OFFICE OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY 2012"
It wasn't really covered up super well, the local newspaper has stories, "Goldsboro News-Argus, January 24-26, 1961; January 23, 2011" and there were books in 1962, 1988, and 2011.
The The North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources website has a database that has all historical markers in the state, a picture of them, location, and a more in depth story about the event the marker is referring to.
man covered the road name and I still found that spot for the second bomb is less than a minute
I love Brandon Herrera. Such a cool guy! Very funny and very informative. He has some reviews and breakdowns of old weaponry as well, which might be interesting to you Mr Terry, examples: "The M1 Garand - Feat. Garand Thumb" (US gun used in WWII and the Korean War - quite a funny video!), "Testing the Gun That Killed Abraham Lincoln", "German Machine Guns of World War II", "Germain Handguns of World War II", "Testing Joe Rogan's JFK Bullet Theory". There may be better ones I've not seen yet.
I never thought I'd see Mr. Terry History and Brandon Herrera converge in this timeline, yet here we are. I'm not sure what this means about the timeline we're on, but ...I guess it's okay? 😬
FYI: Brandon is also running for Congress now. I'm from the UK so it doesn't affect me much, but he'd have my vote so far! lol
Brandon does cover some of the historical weapons as well.
The lettering on the bottom of the sign reads "NORTH CAROLINA OFFICE OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY"
"I don't know what is more terrifying the fact that we have a missing nuclear weapon or that it happens so often we have a code name for it" Broken Arrow
Definitely do more brandon
I’ve always been of the impression that nukes will not detonate unless there is something specific done, something to the effect of they keep the primer or equivalent of the primer separate until ready to launch them for real for this exact scenario
Jesus Christ! How is guntube spreading so far and so wide this is awesome
I visited the plaque and the drop site of the actual bombs a month ago and it was wild to realize what almost happened there.
Yeah the drop site is just farmland now as the full component was removed later so it's fully cleaned up now.
Really one of the most moments of all time 😅
I really like Brandons channel, he has such a vast knowledge of guns. You sure can learn something about them from him. His puns are also great.
This has to be one of the stupidest incidents in the history of our earth.
The memes are great too
Isn't that why you have two Carolinas, in case you accidently nuke one several times ?
Good point
What about Second Carolina? 😂
Check out the Damascus Arkansas titan missile explosion of 1980. "The History Guy" did an excellent video on it. I lived in Arkansas at this time. In fact, I was at the Razorback game in Little Rock with everyone else who had no clue what had happened. (We won, Yea!)
Remember many nuclear bombers also had fail-deadly devices, the opposite of fail-safe, meaning that if the plane gets destroyed (or sometimes even the act of going beneath a certain elevation) it would be assumed that this happened trough enemy interference, and as such the bombs were rigged to explode on their own.
A nuke was dropped in Mars Bluff, SC. They got an alarm that the bomb wasn’t secured, so the co pilot went to the bomb bay to check it, he pulled himself up, but grabbed the manual release. The bomb landed on a shed and exploded. The nuclear material was on board the aircraft, but not in the bomb. It injured several people on the ground, a World War II vet combat medic helped his children who were hurt. They sued the Air Force and settled for the injuries and property damage for quite a bit of money.
my dad was on one of the ships outside of cuba when they were getting ready to invade cuba.
I knew about the main incident for awhile, and the safeties being mostly off. Didn’t know bout the denmark or spain incidents.
Unexploded Nuclear parts, fields of strawberries, moonshine, crazy brothers flying weight flying machines, a terrifying pirate with a shallow hulled ship, a dormant volcano in the mountain ridge...Some fun stuff happens in North Carolina
Imagine living somewhere for 30 years and then finding out that there was a nuclear missile silo hidden in your town disguised as a water tower… that you had no idea about … yeah.. that’s exactly what happened with us…
If I remember correctly, the secondary sparkplug of the second bomb was not found because it broke through the casing and continued its journey into the depths. The spark plug of the secondary is a rod of plutonium 239 which ensures that the secondary is compressed between the external ablative radiation implosion and the internal additional energy and source of additional fast neutrons
Airbase Johnson was part of Chrome Dome. Those switches were set to Armed before the blasted things left the ground because this is before we had reliable early warning set up. They launched expectung one day to be told "we just detected missiles crossing the pole, we will try to evacuate your families, good luck and godspeed".
YES! THE AK GUY! MORE PLEASE!
Btw that gun wall behind him is not a green screen, and he has multiple of them. In fact you can see some guns change placement from video to video.
I live only an hour from Goldsboro and i know a couplr people that work in wayne county so it was cool to learn about this.
For a nuke to detonate, a very specific conventional explosion is needed to compress the nuclear core halves together to start a chain reaction to glow oh so bright. So something like chernobyl wouldn't go full doomsday explosion like a weapon, that and the isotopes used are different
brandon is awesome. hes currently running for congress in tx as well. definitely check him out
There have been at least a couple of times where one guy stopped WWIII. It's pretty horrifying.
*Fat Electrician sitting in the shadows*
Brandon: thats a super secret tool for later.
BTW, DEFCON 1 is nuclear war. The lower the number the closer you get to the world of Fallout. But the reason the US and the USSR never came to blows was because of these nukes. I’d rather be in a global Mexican standoff than having to storm the beaches of Normandy or Okinawa.
The nuclear mishap marker is one of hundreds of historical markers placed all across the state of North Carolina by the state itself.
It's insane it lasted so long. I'd really wonder what the operations total expenditures were.
Pertaining the missing nukes, it's not my problem, can't do anything against/about it, and the devastation from one of them is so large, that if it would become my problem, it soon wouldn't be my problem anymore.
14:00 no, you need a specific order of operations for the nuclear part to start its reaction. you take away any part of the chain and its a normal bomb.
you could hit it with another nukes and nothing would happen.
Great Video!
It take a reaction of atoms breaking as far as I understood
Ah, the candidate for 23rd congressional district of Texas, AKA Papa Kalash
Love you and your takes, you are a light in a country which is at the moment going hard on something close to book burning.
I am a Swedish fan, also loooooove that you have a 4p TMNT arcade game, used to ruin my weekly allowance on game tokens on that one, afterwards i joined the masses sticking around to watch the ones who knew how to complete the game without taking damage even once by doing two types of attacks and avoiding getting hit by standing just on the hitbox edge, hit once and the avoid getting hit by either going up, down or quickly just switching by turning around, on all mobs and all bosses.
Ever played double dragon brother? another great game that you could beat with impeccaple timing, moving up, wait for mob/boss, elbow, move up or down, rince repeat until game over or the billy vs jimmy at the end of the game afer final boss.
Anyways, you have a fan in Sweden who is rooting for ya, gotta be frustrated to teach history when getting ballgagged and forced to either white wash or simply not mention the things not portraying the pilgrims as anything but heroes and civilised people whom brought complete insanity in some cases:D
/comfortbrohug
Bless you/Solo
There are essentially 2 main ways to detonate the nuclear part of a nuclear device, the u235 gun-type, and the spherical implosion type. Both of these squeeze enough of the fissile material into a tight enough space to allow for supercriticality - where the neutrons released from one fissile atom are close enough to reach others frequently enough to cause an exponentially increasing chain reaction of more and more fission (ie. nuclear boom). The first type, as the name implies, is used with u235, and rams a small piece very fast into a large piece. The second type is fissile material wrapped in shaped conventional high explosive charges that are carefully timed to go off simultaneously and "squish" the material. We generally have moved to plutonium for all our vaporizing city needs. So that's where the "safety" comes in. A plane crash with a nuclear device does often detonate the conventional explosives that surround the plutonium core on impact, but you only impact one side, so no implosion happens and the plutonium just gets blasted with conventional high explosives from that one side.
If it helps to visualize it, think of one of those stress balls you squeeze by wrapping your hand around it and pressing your fingers together. It only squeezes if you push all your fingers together around it. If you just push with one finger, it rolls off your hand and you have to pick it up off the floor. With nuclear devices, squeeze = nuclear boom.
To be clear, that part is the fission, though. "Thermonuclear" refers to hydrogen fusion bombs which use that fission bomb to squish and heat heavy hydrogen isotopes to the point of fusing. But the "safety" relies on the fission not being a spherical implosion with accidental detonations.
As for why I'm putting quotes around "safety", accidental detonations are basically a "dirty bomb", conventional explosions spreading highly radioactive material around as we saw in Greenland and Spain, for example.
Ugh... He's overstating the issue. If you take out the core, it is NOT a nuclear weapon anymore.
As for the safeties, that is a potentially major issue when the plane is falling. These devices ONLY go nuclear if the electronic timing trigger detonates all the conventional explosives at the same time, and the safeties are to prevent arming that system. That system is triggered by electrical signals from either a timer or an altimeter because they are designed to have maximum effect at altitude. So falling from the air that's scary AF, and then there's a second slight scare when it impacts because there's a hypothetical risk of short the instant before the spherical explosives are no longer spherical shaped inside the bomb. Once it's impacted the ground at high speed, though, it is now at worst a dirty bomb.
I do get that he's not familiar enough with this, and like the lieutenant in the story, just heard "scary boom device is armed" without knowing it wasn't capable of nuclear detonation at that point. But I can't handwave away him acting like it's still a nuclear threat with the core removed.
EDIT: I also hate the false statement that "it happens so often we have a name for it". We have names for a LOT of nuclear weapons incidents that have never occurred. We culturally have "nuclear apocalypse" for an obvious example. And these official terms are generally created BEFORE they occur. For a military terminology example, "empty quiver" is the term for a functioning nuclear weapon being lost, which has never happened (all "broken arrow" incidents involve the nuclear weapon being damaged, so that 1996 film "Broken Arrow" would have been called "Empty Quiver" if they were being accurate rather than capitalizing on fears over broken arrow incidents).
Going to Goldsboro on Friday to get my new puppy. Glad she won’t have 2 tails.
Ahh yes Congressman Herrera!
14:06 imagine taking that picture. You live there. Whether you work for the press or the military, that’s just too close to your livelihood and families to approach, yet it must be moved. Even taking a photo would be scary. Thinking of the people responsible for it landing in civilian NC like that also trying to move it again is horrifying. And it’s not as simple as calling up your cousin Herb and having him shuttle the whole family all the way to California to “stay safe”
Thanks for the earworm. "So they loaded up the truck and they moved to Beverleee..."
7:23 because it wasnt, it was a deterent to keep an enemy from doing something spicy
Nuclear devices are transported in an inert configuration. They have (now) multiple safety devices and a series of positive action locks.
As they had at the time. Always, Never.
Fat Electrician did a video on the time Oregon Highway Dept blew up a whale. It's hilarious.
I hadn't run across Brandon Herrera. Looks like he's in a gun shop. I'll have to check out his channel. This was interesting but somehow not surprising.
To be honest a nuclear warhead is one of the least bad things in the ground in North Carolina! This was an awesome crossover!
One was dropped on south Carolina too