As for content...eew. But not terribly unexpected. One of my old science teachers used to have the pleasant job of going after "dropped" nuclear weapons and ascertaining their state (intact, broken, etc.), so he shared a bunch of horror stories along those lines with us. Y'know, like when the US had to import a few tons of French sand due to it suddenly being radioactive after a bomber door swung open, or the missile that's *still* lost somewhere in the swamps of the South.
Or the bomb that got dropped but not armed, and was down to a single safety interlock (out of seven) between it and explosion. Yeah. Fun stuff.
Of course, chemical weapons tend to have more a spread even if they don't "go off", so I'm more concerned about them. War's a dirty business, and concentrating its poisons always struck me as a bad idea; but leaving it lying around is even worse!
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Date: 2005-11-10 07:49 pm (UTC)Or the bomb that got dropped but not armed, and was down to a single safety interlock (out of seven) between it and explosion. Yeah. Fun stuff.
Of course, chemical weapons tend to have more a spread even if they don't "go off", so I'm more concerned about them. War's a dirty business, and concentrating its poisons always struck me as a bad idea; but leaving it lying around is even worse!