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In 1961, the US almost detonated two nuclear bombs over North Carolina by accident

And then there’s this…

On January 23rd, 1961, the United States almost nuked itself by accident. On that day, according to a recently unclassified document obtained by The Guardian, the US Air Force mistakenly dropped a pair of hydrogen bombs over Goldsboro, North Carolina…

If the bombs had gone off, the carnage would have reached into Baltimore, Washington DC, Philadelphia, and New York city. “Yeah, it would have been bad news — in spades,” Parker F. Jones, then supervisor of nuclear weapons safety at the Sandia National Laboratories, writes in the formerly-secret document. “One simple, dynamo-technology, low voltage switch stood between the United States and a major catastrophe!”

79 religious groups oppose nuclear bomb plant

“How do you dismantle an atomic bomb? With love”

Found info on this via Brian McLaren’s blog today…

…in the new issue of Sojourners, you can learn how Henry Kissinger and other Reagan administration leaders have joined together to promote not just a limitation in the development of nuclear weapons, but more … the creation of a nuclear-weapon-free world. You may find this hard to believe, but it’s true.
And you can read the moving story of an anti-nuclear activist who has experienced a fusion of activism and Christian faith here.
More good news: over 100,000 people have sent an email to the Department of Energy urging them not to develop new and more powerful nuclear warheads, and urging them instead to work for a nuclear-weapons-free world.
Even more good news – our emails have challenged the Department of Energy to extend the comment period until tomorrow, Wednesday.

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