<story><title>A Burning B-52 Nearly Caused A Nuclear Catastrophe</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29945/the-time-when-a-burning-b-52-nearly-caused-a-nuclear-catastrophe-worse-than-chernobyl</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>W-Stool</author><text>If this topic is an area of interest to you I can&amp;#x27;t recommend Eric Schlosser&amp;#x27;s book enough: &amp;quot;Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety&amp;quot;.  It is a whole history of known accidents in the missle and aircraft domains that involved nuclear weapons.</text></comment>
<story><title>A Burning B-52 Nearly Caused A Nuclear Catastrophe</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29945/the-time-when-a-burning-b-52-nearly-caused-a-nuclear-catastrophe-worse-than-chernobyl</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>phillco</author><text>&amp;gt; Worse still – and unmentioned by Batzel – a design flaw in the B28 bomb meant that if exposed to prolonged heat, two wires too close to the casing could short circuit, arm the bomb, trigger an accidental detonation of the HE [high explosives] surrounding the core, and set off a nuclear explosion&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;P0 - WontFix</text></comment>