Kuroshio Current. The Kuroshio Current is the west side of the clockwise North Pacific ocean gyre The ocean currents surrounding the Japanese archipelago: 1. Kuroshio 2. Kuroshio extension 3. Kuroshio countercurrent 4. The Kuroshio (黒潮 [ku͍ɽoɕio] "Black Tide") is a north-flowing ocean current on the west side of the North Pacific Ocean. Physical properties[edit] It begins off the east coast of Taiwan and flows northeastward past Japan, where it merges with the easterly drift of the North Pacific Current.
The path of Kuroshio south of Japan is reported every day.[1] Its counterparts are the North Pacific Current to the north, the California Current to the east, and the North Equatorial Current to the south. Biological properties[edit] Distribution[edit] Production[edit] Impact of eddies[edit] The Kuroshio is a warm current (24 °C annual average sea surface temperature), about 100 km wide and produces frequent small to meso-scale eddies. Copepods have been used as indicator-species of water masses. Fish[edit] Goldsboro revisited: account of hydrogen bomb near-disaster over North Carolina – declassified document | World news. Declassified Documents: U.S. Narrowly Avoided Nuclear Disaster in North Carolina in 1961.
Just over a decade ago when I was taking a journalism class in college, some classmates and I ended up researching an incident that occurred in a small rural town in North Carolina in 1961. The website we produced, although hardly the first or only coverage of it, actually ended up becoming one of the more widely read sources on the subject. The incident occurred just a few days after John F. Kennedy was sworn into office, when a B-52 bomber on a flight from Seymour Johnson Air Force base in Goldsboro, North Carolina ran into trouble. I'll quote directly from the site since one of the students I worked with did such a great job with the writing: On Tuesday, 24 January 1961, at about 12:30 a.m., two hydrogen bombs fell to earth near the tiny farming village of Faro, NC. Obviously, neither bomb yielded its awful potential, or the world would today be mourning an infamous catastrophe. This little-known brush with nuclear disaster has attracted on and off interest over the years.
Americas | Missing for 50 years - US nuclear bomb. More than 50 years after a 7,600lb (3,500kg) nuclear bomb was dropped in US waters following a mid-air military collision, the question of whether the missing weapon still poses a threat remains. In his own mind, retired 87-year-old Colonel Howard Richardson is a hero responsible for one of the most extraordinary displays of aeronautic skill in the history of the US Air Force. His view carries a lot of weight and he has a large number of supporters - including the Air Force itself which honoured his feat with a Distinguished Flying Cross. But to others, he is little short of a villain: the man who 50 years ago dropped a nuclear bomb in US waters, a bomb nobody has been able to find and make safe. 'Top-secret flight' Shortly after midnight on 5 February 1958, Howard Richardson was on a top-secret training flight for the US Strategic Air Command. At his home in Mississippi, Colonel Richardson said: "All of a sudden we felt a heavy jolt and a burst of flame out to the right. 'Practice mission'
1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision. The Tybee Island B-47 crash was an incident on February 5, 1958, in which the United States Air Force lost a 7,600-pound (3,400 kg) Mark 15 nuclear bomb in the waters off Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia, United States. During a practice exercise, the B-47 bomber carrying the bomb collided in midair with an F-86 fighter plane. To protect the aircrew from a possible detonation in the event of a crash, the bomb was jettisoned. Following several unsuccessful searches, the bomb was presumed lost somewhere in Wassaw Sound off the shores of Tybee Island. Midair collision[edit] Bomb[edit] Some sources describe the bomb as a functional nuclear weapon, but others describe it as disabled. Recovery efforts[edit] Starting on February 6, 1958, the Air Force 2700th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Squadron and 100 Navy personnel equipped with hand held sonar and galvanic drag and cable sweeps mounted a search.
Ongoing concerns[edit] See also[edit] Notes[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] US atomic bomb detonation was avoided by 'the slightest margin of chance' | World news. New evidence has emerged confirming that the US came just one safety switch away from detonating a hydrogen bomb over North Carolina that was 260 times more powerful than the "Little Boy" bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. Previously unseen video footage involving some of the country's top nuclear weapons safety experts, together with documents that have never before been made public, reveal that senior US officials were fully aware that the country came to catastrophe in January 1961 when a B-52 bomber accidentally dropped two Mark 39 hydrogen bombs over Goldsboro, North Carolina.
The knowledge went as far up the chain as the then defence secretary Robert McNamara, who according to a top-secret document told Pentagon officials in 1963 that "by the slightest margin of chance, literally the failure of two wires to cross, a nuclear explosion was averted". A B-52 bomber flying a routine run along the north-east coast of the US got into trouble after it refueled in mid-air. A Sneak Peek at Eric Schlosser's Terrifying New Book on Nuclear Weapons. The Titan II carried a W-53 thermonuclear warhead, with more than 560 times the explosive yield of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.
Rob Schoenbaum/Zuma Update (1/16/2014): The Air Force announced yesterday that it had suspended and revoked the security clearances of 34 missile launch officers at the Malmstrom base in Montana after it came to light that they were cheating—or complicit in cheating—on monthly exams to ensure that they were capable of safely babysitting the nuclear warheads atop their missiles. Eleven launch officers, two of whom where also implicated in the cheating episode, were targeted in a separate investigation of illegal drug use. (As Schlosser told me in an interview, "You don't want people smoking pot and handling nuclear weapons. ") The new revelations were just the latest fiasco in the Air Force's handling of America's nuclear arsenal, which military officials invariably insist is safe.
The anecdote above is just one of many "holy shit! " Not Good. Report: Nuke that fell on N.C. in 1961 almost exploded. One of two hydrogen bombs that a doomed B-52 accidentally dropped on North Carolina in 1961 came perilously close to exploding, according to a recently declassified report. The 4-megaton Mark 39 bombs -- each packing 260 times the explosive power of the weapon that decimated Hiroshima -- broke loose over Goldsboro, N.C., as the bomber went into a tailspin and crashed. All four safety mechanisms designed to prevent accidental detonation worked properly on one bomb, which landed in a meadow, but three failed on the other, and only a low-voltage switch kept it from exploding upon impact in a field in Faro, N.C., said the 1969 report. Had the warhead exploded, radioactive fallout could have spread over the Eastern Seaboard, hitting Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York.
The accident happened just three days after President John F Kennedy was inaugurated in January 1961. Five of the eight crew members survived the crash. Broken Arrows: The Palomares and Thule Accidents. The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project was completed in August 1998 and resulted in the book Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S.
Nuclear Weapons Since 1940edited by Stephen I. Schwartz. These project pages should be considered historical. On January 16, 1966, a B-52G bomber, returning to its North Carolina base following a routine airborne alert mission, collided with the fueling boom of a KC-135 tanker 30,000 feet (9,144 meters) above the coast of Spain while attempting to refuel. Both aircraft broke up and the 40,000 gallons (151,000 liters) of jet fuel in the KC-135 exploded, killing its four man crew. Being located by the submersible Alvin 5 miles (8 kilometers) offshore in 2,850 feet (869 meters) of water. For three months, 1,700 U.S. personnel and Spanish Civil Guards worked to decontaminate the area. The monitoring program apparently continued at least through 1986.
Six of the seven crew members were able to eject safely. Notes: The Swords of Armageddon, [Back] The final switch: Goldsboro, 1961. The threat of nuclear weapons accidents isn’t a new one. Even in 1945, Los Alamos physicists sweated when contemplating all that could possibly go wrong with their bombs, if they went off at the wrong place or the wrong time. Or didn’t go off at all. That’s the bind, really: a nuclear state wants a weapon that always goes off exactly when you tell it to, and never goes off any other time.
That’s a hard thing to guarantee, especially when the stakes are so high in both directions, and especially since these two requirements can be directly in tension. I recently heard Eric Schlosser give that elegant formulation at a talk he gave last week in support of the release of his new book, Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety. The bomb in question, stuck in the mud. I’ve been watching how the above document has been discussed by people on the web. I love the CGI — “all the sudden, now that weapon system is free.” Mr. Notes. 9 Tales of Broken Arrows: Thermonuclear Near Misses Throughout History. Fifty-five years ago, on May 22, 1957, a “broken arrow” rattled Albuquerque, New Mexico, frightening residents and killing one very unlucky cow.
Used by the U.S. military, the term refers to a thermonuclear bomb that is accidentally detonated or lost. The Department of Energy has acknowledged more than two dozen such incidents between 1950 and 1980, many of them on U.S. soil. Find out more about the Albuquerque scare and eight other stories of broken arrows in the United States and beyond. (Credit: Time Life Pictures/Getty Images) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Map shows fallout from 1961 H-bomb accident could have reached Washington and New York. Two hydrogen bombs were dropped after a B-52 bomber broke up in mid-airOne went through almost every single stage of the detonation sequence, even sending a charge to the nuclear core, before failing to detonateThe other fell harmlessly to the ground By Ryan Gorman and Daily Mail Reporter Published: 15:37 GMT, 22 September 2013 | Updated: 15:38 GMT, 22 September 2013 Claims that a pair of hydrogen bombs came within a whisker of detonating in North Carolina in 1961 become even more shocking with the revelation of a map that shows the nuclear fallout from the blasts could have stretched as far as New York City.
The blasts from the Mark 39 bombs - each one 260 times the power of the explosive that was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in the Second World War - would have killed thousands around Goldsboro, North Carolina where they landed. Total loss: Untold thousands of people would have died if even one of the bombs had gone off The two bombs dropped to Earth near Goldsboro, North Carolina. US almost detonated atomic bomb over North Carolina at height of Cold War.
Two atom bombs were dropped after a B-52 bomber fell apart in mid-airOne went through almost every single stage of the detonation sequence, even sending a charge to the nuclear core, before failing to detonateThe other fell harmlessly to the ground By Ryan Gorman Published: 04:02 GMT, 21 September 2013 | Updated: 14:55 GMT, 21 September 2013 The US government came dangerously close to detonating a nuclear bomb over North Carolina at the height of the Cold War - but was saved by a faulty switch it has been revealed. In 1961, two Mark 39 hydrogen bombs - equivalent to 260 times the strength of the Hiroshima device - were dropped over Goldsboro, NC when a B-52 broke apart in mid-flight. The Guardian obtained recently declassified documents detailing the accident, which would have ended the lives of many unsuspecting Americans three days after President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, if the bombs had gone off.
Bad news in spades: This almost happened in 1961 to North Carolina. Whoops: Atomic Bomb dropped in Goldsboro, NC swamp, Neuse River Basin, HUC 02 | Restoration Systems. Things are kind of slow in the swamp and creek business during the holidays, so I am taking the liberty of relating a fascinating incident in North Carolina bog history. In 1961, an atomic bomb was dropped into Nahunta Swamp, a 3rd order tributary to the Neuse River in Hydrologic Unit Code 02.
The bomb remains entombed in Nahunta Swamp to this day. No kidding. A cold war B-52 bomber lost a wing in a storm shortly after takeoff from Seymour Johnson AFB. As was procedure, the crew proceeded to drop two of the most powerful U.S. atomic nuclear weapons into the riparian area below, near Pikeville. One bomb floated gently down with its parachute and was soon retrieved. “The Stockholm Institute has called the Goldsboro incident perhaps the single most important example in the published literature of an accident which nearly resulted in a catastrophe.” and Dave Schiller, a senior scientist at Restoration Systems, was a freshman at N.C. Wiki on the Goldsboro “Broken Arrow” incident: 1966 Palomares B-52 crash. The 1966 Palomares B-52 crash or Palomares incident occurred on 17 January 1966, when a B-52G bomber of the United States Air Force's Strategic Air Command collided with a KC-135 tanker during mid-air refuelling at 31,000 feet (9,450 m) over the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Spain.
The KC-135 was completely destroyed when its fuel load ignited, killing all four crew members. The B-52G broke apart, killing three of the seven crew members aboard.[1] Of the four Mk28-type hydrogen bombs the B-52G carried,[2] three were found on land near the small fishing village of Palomares in the municipality of Cuevas del Almanzora, Almería, Spain. The non-nuclear explosives in two of the weapons detonated upon impact with the ground, resulting in the contamination of a 2-square-kilometer (490-acre) (0.78 square mile) area by plutonium.
The fourth, which fell into the Mediterranean Sea, was recovered intact after a 2½-month-long search.[3] Accident[edit] Weapons recovery[edit] Alvin submersible. Faro, North Carolina. Mk.39 thermonuclear bomb resting in a field in Faro, NC Faro is an unincorporated community in Wayne County, North Carolina, United States.[1] 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash[edit] Located 12 miles (19 km) north of Goldsboro, North Carolina and Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, Faro was ground zero for two hydrogen bombs dropped during the 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash[2] as the aircraft broke up in flight.[3] The crash site is 1.5 miles southwest of Faro on Big Daddy's Road.[4] Notes[edit] Powerful atom bomb dropped on NC in 1961, document says. Obama proposes cutting nukes by a third - The Hill's Video. Freeze our Fukushimas - Petition NRC to revoke the operating licenses of dangerous GE Mark I & Mark II reactors.
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