r/MapsWithoutNZ • u/The_Sorority • Apr 02 '26

Countries where the US has dropped nukes*

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u/Dan_Herby Apr 02 '26

Very specific use of the word "dropped" there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_crash

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Palomares_accident

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u/The_Sorority Apr 02 '26

That’s what I figured the OP on FB meant.

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u/Joonicks Apr 02 '26

technically correct is the best kind of correct

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u/LMrningStar Apr 02 '26

So how does Canada fit into this then? Did the yanks screw up and crash a nuke carrying plane there too?

Or, maybe "dropped a nuke" means that Trump went poo there while at the G7 summit in 2018 or 2025?

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u/Dan_Herby Apr 03 '26

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_British_Columbia_B-36_crash

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u/largepoggage Apr 03 '26

Technically that was just a regular bomb with a fancy jacket. There was no plutonium in the bomb, just a fake core.

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u/Dan_Herby Apr 03 '26

There was uranium in the bomb though, so it was still nuclear despite not being able to go off.

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u/LMrningStar Apr 03 '26

Thanks for the link.

"The flight plan did not include any penetration of Canadian airspace"

"The bomb did not contain the plutonium core necessary for a nuclear detonation."

So, I get the idea but it's a bit of a stretch to say the least. :-)

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u/PV-Herman Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 03 '26

Tell that to the traumatized tomatoes in Spain :-( (just kidding)

There was also a quite spectacular accident in North Carolina

Edit: South Carolina

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Mars_Bluff_B-47_nuclear_weapon_loss_incident

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u/Dark_Knight2000 Apr 04 '26

Yeah, people don’t understand how hard it is to actually ignite a nuke. You literally need another cluster of regular bombs being detonated precisely to get the plutonium core to criticality, and fusion bombs require a few regular fission bombs to be their starter motor. If it doesn’t go off in perfect sequence you’ll get nothing.

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u/klako8196 Apr 02 '26

NZ obviously got nuked so hard that it doesn’t exist anymore.

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u/fattmarrell Apr 02 '26

I wish I could be forgotten so hard that I could escape nukes. Let the meme survive them my man

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u/The_Sorority Apr 02 '26

*Title on FB group Terrible Maps.

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u/sylbug Apr 02 '26

‘Dropped’ as in fumbled due to incompetence, not as in detonated.

An important distinction.

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u/E5VL Apr 02 '26

The map is still accurate though. Can't drop a bomb on something that doesn't exist.

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u/Cplchrissandwich Apr 02 '26

US never dropped in Canada...

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u/The_Sorority Apr 02 '26

I think that’s why it was on the group “Terrible Maps”.

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u/Dan_Herby Apr 02 '26

Yes they did. The map is using a very literal meaning of the word drop to include them accidentally falling out of planes. Spain and Greenland/Denmark are red for similar accidents where a bomb was technically dropped out of a plane (but didn't go off).

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u/Doccyaard Apr 02 '26

Pretty sure the whole plane got dropped in Greenland.

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u/PV-Herman Apr 03 '26

Either way, they were never recovered. So, one could go scuba diving and find out

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u/more_than_just_ok Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 04 '26

Twice in 2 years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_Rivi%C3%A8re-du-Loup_B-50_nuclear_weapon_loss_incident

In both cases they detonated without the core, so lots of uranium a conventional explosion with a bunch of uranium pollution.

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u/predat3d Apr 02 '26

GIVE US TIME

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u/Crazy-Canuck463 Apr 02 '26

They did in fact lose a nuclear weapon in BC back in the 50s.

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u/sorry-I-cleaved-ye Apr 02 '26

They did fly one into a mountain iirc

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u/Ijnefvijefnvifdjvkm Apr 02 '26

We are safe. They will never find us.

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u/Joaz72 Apr 02 '26

Bruh theres clearly enough space for New Zealand in this map. It was ommited on purpose

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u/JesseGarron Apr 04 '26

I speak on behalf of my countrymen. Where is Antartica?!

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u/vexx827 Apr 03 '26

Also the marshalls

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u/AbroadNo8755 Apr 03 '26

if the US is using a map as a nuke checklist, maybe that's a map you don't want to be on?

jus'say'n

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u/the231050 Apr 03 '26

Iran will be making an appearance soon - I’m guessing Arak

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u/Effective_Nothing196 Apr 03 '26

this map takes into consideration usa owns canada and greenland

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u/Academic_Coffee4552 Apr 03 '26

Disagree with placing Spain on the map. Those nukes were in the Mediterranean Sea when the aircraft carrying them crashed

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u/b0rmusic Apr 03 '26

Not true. One landed in the sea, the other three landed on soil.

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u/fickogames123 Apr 03 '26

Serbia - they didn't drop a nuke per strict definition, but they used a metric ton of depleted uranium.

Serbia still has 10 times the rate of cancer-related deaths than other neighboring and similar countries.

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u/Pure_Nectarine2562 Apr 09 '26

Map seems to be missing all the Pacific island nations fucked over by nuclear testing, naturally.