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Accidents Involving Nukes by (posted by Guido) Friday December 19, 2003 at 11:14 PM |
It took six years, but the London Guardian has forced the Ministry of Defence to hand over a list of 20 nuclear accidents from 1960 to 1991. Reporter Rob Evans kindly supplied The Memory Hole with the actual document, which is not otherwise online. He wrote the following story based on this hard-won information:
MoD Catalogues Its Nuclear Blunders
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foi/story/0,9061,1061755,00.html
British nuclear weapons have been repeatedly dropped, struck by other weapons, and on one occasion carried on a truck that slid down a hill and toppled over, the Ministry of Defence has admitted after decades of secrecy.
The rest on:
http://www.thememoryhole.org/nukes/mod-nuke-accidents.htm
Document:
http://www.thememoryhole.org/nukes/mod-nuke-accidents.pdf