How The US Accidentally Dropped Nukes On Itself And Its Allies
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In August of 1957, the Soviet Union launched the world’s first successful Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). It was capable of delivering a heavy nuclear warhead to a target six thousand miles away, in under half an hour. The West was left scrambling for a solution. From what U.S. Intelligence could gather, the Soviets were quickly pulling ahead in developing missile technology. Projections showed that by the 1960s, the Soviets would likely have enough missiles to launch a preemptive nuclear attack. America needed a way fill this perceived ‘missile gap’.
Operation Chrome Dome would be the solution. Between 1960 and 1968, B-52 Stratofortress strategic bomber aircraft armed with thermonuclear weapons were kept airborne around the clock, day in and day out. Chrome Dome would send a powerful message to the Soviet Union that America was ready to respond, and help keep the scales of nuclear power balanced. Flying to points along the Soviet border, Chrome Dome missions would be as long as 24-hours each, pushing flight crews and B-52 aircraft to their limit. It was an extraordinary feat of logistics, requiring the support of aerial refueling aircraft, and a large number of ground base support personnel. The program would also come at a cost.
There were 5 major accidents involving B-52 aircraft flying Operation Chrome Dome missions. The first came early into the program, when in 1961, two nuclear bombs fell back to earth near Goldsboro, North Carolina. Information declassified in 2013 suggests that one of the bombs came very close to detonating. The next incident occurred just a few months later near Yuba City, California when another two nukes were lost in a crash. There would be yet another incident 1964 in Savage Mountain, Maryland. In all of these incidents, 6 nuclear bombs crashed back to earth and were eventually recovered without much in the way of consequences. Neither their conventional nor nuclear explosives detonated.
But another two incidents would put the program into an entirely different light. In 1966, four nukes came crashing back to earth over Palomares, Spain. This time, two of them detonated their conventional explosives, leaving five square kilometers of Spanish countryside contaminated with radioactive plutonium. It was the worst nuclear accident of its time. Although Chrome Dome was scaled down as a result, there would be yet another accident in Thule, Greenland in 1968. Four nuclear bombs detonated their conventional explosives, spreading contamination over a large area. This final incident put an immediate end to all Operation Chrome Dome Missions.
During the course of the eight-year long ambitious cold-war operation, America accidentally dropped 14 nuclear bombs. But Operation Chrome Dome also helped maintain the delicate balance of power between America and the Soviet Union, and the program might have prevented nuclear war.
#OperationChromeDome #ColdWar #B52
America: oops I dropped a thermonuclear bomb.
World: Wtf
World: At least its just one
America: Yes, one
America must really hate itself
Now imagine how many times Russia fucked up with their nukes
@@jaimedelgado7529 Quite a few times, you still can't safely walk around many parts of Northeast Kazakhstan, Semipalatinsk for example. 🔥🎇🔥🌫🌫🌫☁🌨🧪📈🤢�🤮💀
jaime delgado well they don’t have much luck with nuclear technology
One*
imagine you're piloting a bomber in 1950 and your copilot asks
"hey john where's the bomb #5"
Yo bill, where'd the nukes go?
*_faint explosion_*
@@weasle2904 Damn. I think I left them at home
Must have fallen out.
Oops!
"Oh I know about this. They accidentally dropped two in US right?"
"They dropped fourteen"
"Four-what???"
If its Explode they gonna Blame the soviet
The SAC PR response to it all would be s/t like "Over 99% of all H-bombs are accounted for....."
@@ballbender9thousand944 squigga?
This isn't all of the incidents. They left off a B-36 crash with a nuke in British Columbia, Canada in the late 40s or 50s, and also a couple of 50s B-47 Stratojet accidents (one of them crash-landed in Britain at an RAF base and nearly collided with a nuke storage area, which could have been a widescale catastrophe). There's a reason so many safety checks and restrictions on nuke transport and storage are now in place.
@@hawkeyeten2450 hey they are just spicy presents
America: Are you breathing right now?
Spain: Yeah, why?
America: Yeah, I wouldn't
OS
@@Bascanska_Ploca mhm
Oversimplified
USA: hey i wouldnt eat that if i were you
Spanish woman: ok *drops apple*
USA: what are you about to do today?
Spanish woman: go for a swim
USA: * once again * yeahh i wouldnt
@@Cbrmkn98xs Lol
>Put nukes on rockets to catch the enemy off guard
>Put nukes on rockets so you don't have to use planes anymore because you keep dropping nukes on your own country
>Put nukes on a 20 meters walking bipedial so other country could drops on yours
@@rakaipikatan8922 ME-METAL GEAR!?
>put missles on nukes
>missle the nukes
>nuke the missiled nuke
ya
Puts nukes on missiles that drop on America any ways! ua-cam.com/video/jDcog2ZP684/v-deo.html
“Why is this plane so light all of a sudden?”
The nuke: _Omae wa moe shindaeru_
@@thefirstsin pilot:NANI
@@karma4552 then they got mutated and they're predecessors became unintelligent :_:
@@thefirstsin oof
@@karma4552 🤣
Hippity Hoppity,
Why is there a nuclear in my property.
An _unexpected guest_ just *_dropped in._*
A suprise to be sure but, not a welcomed one
Idk
Welcome to the commonwealth.
Hippity Hoppity sir I don’t know how to repay you for the joy you’ve brought me
4:02 "And today's nuclear attack is sponsored by McDonalds."
Underrated hahahah
"Sponsored By McDonald's and Pepsi"
Lmao
I'm droppin' it
@@ironcito1101ahh! Good one!
*Boeing B-52 has been kicked from the server*
*Reason: Friendly Fire*
*_Friendly Fire is not tolerated !_*
*Ground Target Destroyed*
-250000 sl for friendly fire
Lol
NATO: lets just go to settings and switch it off. Keep ‘em coming boys! We are coming
Bruh why not turn on safe mode on them nukes
Stupid dum americannts
Oopsy poopsie I dropped a nuksy!
Boi u underrated
BeamingBetelgeuse XD **Faint explosion** **Giant mushroom cloud comes bolting towards you with a bunch of flying cars trucks and buildings**
B-52 did an oopsy
Oppsy poopsy there goes the nukesy
Kaboom
“Hey Carl, turn on the tunes bud.”
“OK dude.”
“Ahhhh shiiiiiiitttttt.”
“What is it Carl?!”
“That was bombs away switch, not the stereo volume.”
“Carl, what about that lever”
“Ah fuck”
“What is it Carl?”
“That’s the engine switch”
Part 2 of Carl's story
"Hold on Bernard i got it its okay *click*"
"What was that Carl?"
*ALERT ALERT ALERT Bomb AC-369 has been activated detonation in 1:00 minute *
"Hey Carl?"
"Yeah Bernard?"
"I...i don't think that was the radi- *BOOM*
*BREAKING NEWS 2 RETARDS START WW3*
General: Wait, pilots aren't allowed to listen to radio stations.
@@foxtrotnine Corpse of Carl: Can't stop me
*_epic_*
My grandmother's brother helped clean up at Thule. He was exposed to a lot of radiation and later committed suicide. I don't know if the accident at Thule was the cause behind his suicide, but that's how my grandmother tells the story. Scary stuff.
ouch
It certainly did not help, radiation sickness causes paranoia and anxiety
My uncle was there as well. He was a crew chief of a SAC B-52D during chrome done. It's a good thing the weapons worked as advertised
The uploads are infrequent, but when it does happen, it's a great day.
I have a feeling they will be more frequent in the future! :D
Let's hope so. But not at the expense of quality.
Just like oversimplified, but we just don't punish mustard severely!
Yep.
Really true
we all make mistakes in the heat of passion jimbo
I really hope the passion was flying
Pavan Kumar bet you’re fun at parties.
Pavan Kumar It was a joke.
r/cursedcomments
Indeed.
You forgot to mention that after the incident in Spain, Spain banned the US from being able to fly in Spanish airspace with bombers with nuclear bombs, after a few days most of the countries of Europe followed and did the same
24/7 B-52 crew almos at the end of their shift:
"-Yo the shitter is full!
-All right I will dump it.
-Oops! Wrong button, there goes the nuke!
-Damn it McDonald, not again!"
@Lime Crewmate sus
n o t a g a i n
@Lime Crewmate didn’t they have multiple Nukes? I mean look at how big those things are what are they doing with all that space.
@@andrewdoesyt7787 nukes and more nukes? That's what we'd all do.
@@arry5432 yea lol but he’s saying one nuke was dropped and that was it lol I’m saying they probably have more than one nuke
Me: accidentally goes over speeding limit gets ticket that spikes insurance 4 years
America: drops multiple nukes no worries it's all good have a nice day
Lol. Very true.
Stop speeding then
@@BigWheel. “Just comply” narc
never heard of speeding tickets raising insurance lol
Ooh, today is a good day!
Thanks to you
When either Lemmino or Mustard uploads, it's a good day.
@Z3U5 He uploaded today =)
Now, imagine if you live in Greenland. '-' Hope you can sleep tonight! ;)
"Soviet factories were cranking out missiles like sausages"
*Then Again, What Sausages?*
Dont eat Soviet sausages
Carewolf but what if I want D:/
Ivailo Stoychev doctor sausage
try VW sausages
That unturned profile pic is so nostalgic
Soviet Union: *Doesn’t nuke America and its allies*
America: “Fine, I’ll do it myself”
Copilot: OK, we're gonna get ready to drop our payload on *Soviet targets*
Pilot: * drops bombs over US * say again?
@Jacques Malan "aight boss we are back again lets drop em now"
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING"
"i dropped the bombs sir"
"I SAID NORTH KOREA"
"ohhhhh.... i heard " north canada"
@@itsyehippohd8312 "North Canda"
NATO: America are you drunk
America: maybe
Pilot is just one of red, and as we know, red is kinda sus(y balls).
I'm 18 year old mentally disabled virgin
Nobody:
The US AIR FORCE: *OOPS*
This remind me of a quote in the movie "Broken Arrow". One of the government official said "I don't know what is scarier. Losing a nuclear weapon or losing nuclear weapon happen so frequently that there is a code word for it"
Bro it's obvious how you stop a ballistic nuke.
You fire a nuke at it.
Bro you want a scholarship?
Israel is already doing that
@@aaaa-bj6wd i was just about to say that
But that wakes godzilla
@@leaderbenblackwell3836 it does not awake him, it radiates him from being a godzillasaurus into Godzilla.
This video was actually made possible by cameras, silly billy.
Actually, it's possible because of computer video effects and clips edited into this amazing video I watch way too often, there are barely any real footage.
Dangaming10 Christ.
Fucking r/wooosh. Either that or you’re a real killer at parties.
@Martin An unnecessary addition to the obvious, yes.
@Martin he's a redditor don't worry about him
This vid was made possible because none of these 14 bombs exploded
When you accidentally turned on the "Friendly Fire".
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"One has never been recovered"
This is the mission I was born for.
I was born and raised in Goldsboro, North Carolina and this is a story that gets told often, there's even a local legend that one of the nukes is still buried in a nearby swamp. The funny thing is, if it wasn't for the Air Force base, that's still active some sixty plus years later, the city would have probably disappeared, because it was just a small rest stop of a town before the base was established. The only other thing our town is know for is that Andy Griffith taught English at Goldsboro High School for a brief period of time.
The animation is TOP notch
BLACKFIRE _X agreed
DROP EVERYTHING MUSTARD UPLOADED
Except for your atomic bombs, don't drop those
@Josh M true
Why should we drop everything that he's uploaded? They might break.
Including the nukes?
@Josh M Oops
“accident” yeah OKAY.
more like “yo that’s my ex-wife’s house... let it fly.”
Nobody:
The US AIR FORCE: OOPS
Well. Trump did appoint Rick Perry to head the Department of Energy and allowed Russia to hack us.
"There are no accidents"
- Master Oogway
Wait a minute
Hol'up
No critique, no ass kissing, just a question....could you do a video about the iss or the mir space station. (Also l love your content)
-your fan from Finland
Totally ass kissing, but agreed.
Don't forget about the salyut and almaz series of space stations or Skylab. Also the channel Kevin Gustafson has a great series dedicated to Skylab and mir with archive footage. Edit: The manned orbital laboratory would also be neat to cover.
Were the words ”assing kissing” worth mentioning?
様David oh you bet
How is Finland these days?
It was worth the wait for a quality video.
usa: the only country to drop nukes on another country
also usa: the only country to drop nukes on itself
USA: What did you plan to do today?
Spain: I don’t know go for a swim.
USA: Yeah I wouldn’t... are you breathing right now?
Spain: Yeah
USA: Yeah... I wouldn’t
I understood that reference
I really love your Videos! Can you make one about the japanese kamikaze weapons? I would love it!
LpU yess the ohka!
NO U SAUCE
Lucas Christ i mean the whole kamikaze program!
LpU yes please
AHH yes the cherry blossom ohka
Totally not unsettling!
At least no one was killed compared to Soviet accidents.
seth Thomas lmao what do you mean? In the Goldsboro crash alone, 3 B52 crews died. There are more fatalities involved in the other accidents as well. US is not better than the USSR in most regards, they are just countries.
@@jiaruiyan870 Yes it is. The total number of accidents and lives lost by the Soviets over the US is enormous. The total number dead just from their sub accidents alone trumps anything the U.S. lost.
@@Predator42ID so you're saying america is great, by comparing number of casualties in an accident? Damn, that's a very dumb way to compare...
@@toxicatto6074 Do I really need to mention all the horrid differences between the two. I prefer cynical, besides Jerry Yan requested and I answered.
"We don't have mistakes, just happy accidents"
Bob Ross
I grew up in Goldsboro and only found out about this as an adult. Could’ve been an epic class-action lawsuit. “Seeking claims for physical and emotional damages including involuntary vaporization and fear of being under the sky.”
That's what I call Friendly Nuking
Friendly nuke incoming do you have any idea
I'm 23, from Spain, and i've never heard anyone or anything about those bombs. So cool to find out history about your own country.
pasó hace casi sesenta años. Manuel Fraga se bañó en la playa con el embajador de US y otras personalidades para probar que no había radiactividad www.elperiodico.com/es/mas-periodico/20151019/con-fraga-en-palomares-4598944
@@ImNotADeeJay si pero se bañaron en otra playa eso tambien es sabido dile tonto 🤣🤣
I’m 21, from the UK, and I read your comment just now.
Poland, checking in.
Remember that when they talk about soviet secrecy.
imagine opening your door on a monday morning to find a thermonuclear bomb
Spain was really close to be turned into a beta for Fallout.
Me: time for bed.
*Sees Mustard uploaded video.
Also me: oh well. Sleep is overrated anyways.
SLEEP FOR THE BROKE!
Wake up Mr freeman
FYI, the people I know who have worked at Thule pronounce it "TOO-lee".
Huh i pronounced it like Fool XD
Your segways to the sponsers at the end are so good !!
you uploaded this on my birthday! thank you so much!
Man!! You could make a video about how paint dries, and it would be awesome!
You introduce topics in an awesome way that anybody can understand. Thank you for the great video!
odin makes just did one
As I was reading this comment, an ad about paint was playing
@@genericjohn972 lol
"GENTLEMEN. YOU CANT FIGHT IN HERE, THIS IS THE WAR ROOM"
Doctor strange love
Dr. Strangelove: Great movie
kasra khatir Sao: A?
Operation “chrome dome,” Should be named operation paranoid
Unbelievably cool! I'm loving this tech advancement.
Nobody knows how many bombs the soviets dropped.
*So sleep soundly tonight*
Nobody knows how many soviet nuclear weapons are floating around in the sea
Except putin probably
Sleep soundly tonight knowing that only bear riding russain man named vladimir knows if a nuclear bomb might crash into the crust of your country
The Chernobyl accident caused enough radiation to spread around, anyway...
Johto, as do yourself
@@investorbloke Nah Japan didnt think so
Taken quote from oversimplified cold war video
Another great video!
I’m fascinated by Cold War history, keep them coming.
All the best.
I’ve drove through Goldsboro a couple times, it’s about an hour east of me. Crazy to think about
Love your videos. This is the only one where I feel like you could have gone into more detail. I wish you had gone through the mechanisms that prevented the bombs from detonating their nuclear payloads.
the amount of depth that you cover in such a short video span is amazing. moreover the hard work put in the actual video shows as just this one video covers all aspects of the topic.
I am an avid viewer of this channel but I hope to see videos more frequently in the future.
Great work MUSTARD✌️👍👌👏
Love your videos, Mustard! They're some of the most well-made, informative videos I've seen in my life. I hope you have a great day!
Hey Mustard! I love your videos - superb work. Ever considered making a video about the Sud Caravelle?
I love your thumbnails, keep em coming
Thank you for you service, Mustard
Mustard and Lemmino uploaded on the same week. Couldn't be better.
create133 haha yes maybe they worked that out
America: Ooops, butter fingers!
Imagine the feeling the crew had when they realized a bomb dropped on their own country
Your video quality is unbelievably underrated. Thanks again Mustard
Lemino and mustard upload same week. The greatest week of 2019 so far!
The crew's face when they realized that they lost the bombs should have been hilarious
truly impressive how the video quality har improved over the years
The sometimes-obscure history aspect of your content keeps me coming back. I look forward to each of your videos.
Wondering if you’ve ever considered doing something on the air races of the 1920’s. Some interesting stories from back then with countries competing for superiority in speed all while flying some amazing looking machines.
Please do the XB-70 next?
I second this! I'd also love to see a video on any of the X-planes. 🚀
im in love with your visuals
How did this video get so few views compared to the other ones Mustard uploads? weird, deserves more for sure!
oh hey mustard's alive :P good to see you again
Quality Content really shows! Thank you for continuing to make good content!
Also, you sound suspiciously like the ShoddyCast story guy, but with a little more emotion.
US : Oops, we lost a nuke...
CCCP : Hold my beer...
US: No you hold my beer
CCCP: ... this is a nuke.
US: Sorry I keep mixing them up.
2:49 “Introduces a new dimension to surprise.” Says “SURPRISE” in all caps lol.
Nice! I was just reading about this as this video was uploaded!
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm
Press X to doubt
X
Another fantastic, thoroughly entertaining video. Would love to see a video on the Vickers VC-10.
“What was that sound honey?”
“Just another nuke dropping onto our lawn”
Straight to the point, how you make a video lads.
Always making great content. F-35 controversy next?
f35 is terrible awful jet compared to ones it is supposed to "phase out"
too soon, would be too contentious, and the operational history is not yet long enough
mind you, the F22 got mothballed before it even accumulated any semblance of an operational history
@@DrWhom can u elaborate on what you mean with the F22? I'm interested
Awesome video! Although i wish you would've gone into more detail as to how exactly these bombs got dropped accidentally. Yes, 24 hour flights are hard on an airplane, but what has to go wrong for a bomb to be dropped
It says in the video. Structural failure, uncontrolled decompression and fuel starvation, structural failure, mid-air collision, and a fire onboard
Read Command and Control by Eric Schlosser. It covers all these accidents in detail and goes into how the bombs were designed to prevent accidental detonations (though they weren't nearly as safe as one would hope...)
The one in Spain during air refueling the B52 and its KC135 made collected, killing the crew of the KC135 and killing four of the six in B52.
Interesting stuff. Subbed.
They could have kept the nukes safe if they just had used Dashlane.
Lmaooooo
Or north VPN
A correction, 5:25 that's not Palomares, that's Alicante/Elche (two regions over Almeria where is located Palomares), more or less 200Kms to the south.
español?
CADesigner looks like the town of Alicante, palomares is the middle of the next bay down between cartenaga and almeria
@@ImNotADeeJay Sep
@@GuinessOriginal I'm from Spain, and more precisely my home city is Alicante, to be exact the dots are marked almost exactly on Elche instead of Alicante, is another few kms to the south.
CADesigner lol OK you know better then me, although at the scale of that map that dot is several km wide. Glad I wasn't too far off the mark. Shame they didn't drop them on benidorm really
America: i lost a few bombs
Russia: I lost count of my missing bombs
God, how childish is the "Yes but Johnny..." argument?
After WW2 Uk - protecting USA from Russia. And the world from USA and Russia.
Deipatrous Both suck 😂
@@paulhunter123 while the world needed their freedom from UK.
cranking out missiles like sausages , that statement killed me 🤣🤣
There’s something nice about old television
Closed incognito as soon as i got the notification
@OptimalOptimus50 watch and wank
tbh i do that too
This begs the question: How many nukes did the Soviets accidentally drop?
not what "begs the question" means. Look up: petitio principii
zapfanzapfan ,**Insert North Korea joke here**
Around 40, CMIIW
@@dhannysubagja7708 , не пизди
NO, NO IT DOES NOT. IT TELLS YOU HOW MUCH BULLSHIT AND CRAPPY BEAUROCRACY THERE IS IN THE USA. WHETER THEY HID IT OR NOT, THEY DIDNT GIVE A SHIT.
*OUTSTANDING MOVE*
It's so nice to listen to the history
Glad to see another video out, love your channel!
I'm always wondering how many hours these animations took. But they're definitely worth the effort 👍
Now THIS would also make an amazing HBO miniseries, now that Chernobyl has ended. An honest overview of Operation Chrome Dome, and going into the mentality of the US military about this operation, the stress it put on pilots and the accidents that derived from such a massive undertaking
Pssh i mean it’s only the fate of the human race if anyone does something wrong, and accidents that could…..well kill millions of people in a flash.
I second this
We need a really big wall. I live Ontario and that shits close.
Land: *exists*
America: Drops 14 nukes
Land: WTF????
America: OOOOPS!!
T EA no
"Let's go, Chrome Dome!" -FN 2187 "Finn", 2017
6:17 Wtf did I just hear that a thermonuclear bomb was never recovered
America: SHIT! We can't find one...hey Greenland you know where it is.
Greenland: ....n....o.....
Imagine a hiker in Greenland traversing a mountain only to discover a gigantic hole with a Thermonuclear Bomb inside it
And this video only covers the American broken arrows, no one knows how many the Soviets lost
Swömp bomb
Although not part of Operation Chrome Dome, there was another broken arrow incident where in 1957, a B-36 was flying between El Paso, Texas, and Albuquerque, New Mexico accidentally dropped a mk17 Thermonuclear Bomb just prior to landing. The bomb detonated it's conventional explosives, but due to components required for thermonuclear detonation, crucially not being fitted to the bomb, no nuclear reaction occurred. That said, apart from one grazing cow being killed by the explosion, top soil from the farmland the bomb fell into had to be removed as part of decontamination efforts. The incident was classified until the 1980's