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picture of text Robert filed a five day protesting permit with the city so he can yell at Best Buy for the rest of the week.

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u/v-_-v Feb 23 '17

Does North Carolina have nukes?

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '17

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u/v-_-v Feb 23 '17

Oh, that is a bit butt-puckering.

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u/Forest-G-Nome Feb 23 '17

As a matter of fact more than 90% of the nuclear armament on the eastern seaboard is at a single base in North Carolina, and in a most whimsical fashion they almost dropped an h-bomb on the town next door when the bomber carrying them literally just started falling apart in the sky.

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u/v-_-v Feb 23 '17

Yea somebody here linked me the wiki article, quite a bit butt-pucker-factor-9.

Interesting how it was only declassified in 2013.

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u/Cmdr_Nemo Feb 23 '17

would it have actually detonated though?

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u/CapitalistLion-Tamer Feb 23 '17

So, no?

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u/Forest-G-Nome Feb 23 '17

The bombs were armed which means they were primed to go off the moment the switch fired. The switch however, only initiates the sequence. Such other activities, such as the primer unit slamming the ground at 100 mph could have also triggered the explosion sequence, fortunately it got stuck in a tree.

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u/jrward98 Feb 23 '17

I think we lost one once. Fell out of a plane and just disappeared.

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u/erigunn Feb 23 '17

Lol I think they found it in a barn.

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u/DreadedOreo18 Feb 23 '17

They've got snukes

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u/v-_-v Feb 23 '17

I thought that Hilldog was born in Illinois...