I Guess the Russians and the Chinese Already Knew?

[Perknose]

TMI at the end from a semi-clickbait* entitled article from The Guardian:

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“The B-61 bomb is about as safe as a fully assembled nuclear weapon can be. It has good safety mechanisms and insensitive high explosives that won’t detonate if exposed to fire, shock, shrapnel, etc,” said Eric Schlosser, the author of Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety. “The warheads routinely trucked from the Atomic Weapons Establishment in Berkshire to the Trident submarine base on the west coast of Scotland are a lot more problematic. You could get significant plutonium scattering or even a small-scale nuclear detonation during an accident or a terrorist attack — and those warheads are also more vulnerable to sabotage.”

^^^ Hey Eric! Were you supposed to say all that out loud?

 

[Jaskalas]

Brilliant OPSec....

 

[trenchfoot]

Or his statements are purposefully misleading. Jus' say'in.

 

[hal2kilo]

TMI at the end from a semi-clickbait* entitled article from The Guardian:

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“The B-61 bomb is about as safe as a fully assembled nuclear weapon can be. It has good safety mechanisms and insensitive high explosives that won’t detonate if exposed to fire, shock, shrapnel, etc,” said Eric Schlosser, the author of Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety. “The warheads routinely trucked from the Atomic Weapons Establishment in Berkshire to the Trident submarine base on the west coast of Scotland are a lot more problematic. You could get significant plutonium scattering or even a small-scale nuclear detonation during an accident or a terrorist attack — and those warheads are also more vulnerable to sabotage.”

^^^ Hey Eric! Were you supposed to say all that out loud?

Don't see any white cans.

 

[Drach]

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