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humanodon  ·  4130 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A Nuclear Bomb Almost Exploded in North Carolina (*in 1961*)

Your description reminds me of the fail safes in a nuclear power plant as explained to me by a friend that used to be a nuclear engineer. Basically, "oops!" is something that people dealing with radioactive materials work very, very, very hard at preventing and avoiding.