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United States military nuclear incident terminology
NUCFLASH
Pinnacle - Nucflash refers to detonation or possible detonation of a nuclear weapon which creates a risk of an outbreak of nuclear war. Events which may be classified Nucflash may include:
Detection of unidentified objects by a missile warning system or interference (experienced by such a system or related communications) that appears threatening and could create a risk of nuclear war.
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Propaganda, the coordinated attempt to influence public opinion through the use of media, was skillfully used by the Nazi Party in the years leading up to and during Adolf Hitler's leadership of Germany (1933–1945). Nazi propaganda provided a crucial instrument for acquiring and maintaining power, and for the implementation of their policies, including the pursuit of total war and the extermination of millions of people in the Holocaust.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/world/europe/11iht-journal.4.16080426.html?pagewanted=all
The New York Times
Spanish town still haunted by its brush with Armageddon
By Paul Geitner
Published: Thursday, September 11, 2008
PALOMARES, Spain — The rest of the world has mostly forgotten, but the brush with nuclear Armageddon is seared on the minds of locals here and still niggles, 42 years later.
On the morning of Jan. 17, 1966, a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber returning from a routine Cold War alert mission exploded during airborne refueling, sending its cargo of B28 hydrogen bombs plummeting toward earth. One went into the azure waters of the Mediterranean and three others fell around this poor farming village, about 200 kilometers, or 125 miles, east of Granada.
Seven crew members on the air force planes perished in the fireball, while four parachuted to safety. No one on the ground was killed. The nuclear warheads, many times more powerful than those that fell on Hiroshima, did not go off - exactly.
Parachutes failed to deploy on two of the bombs, resulting in high-explosive detonations that, although non-nuclear, spread radioactive material across a wide area of steep and rugged terrain.
A massive retrieval and cleanup operation ensued, with hundreds of U.S. military and Spanish civil guards swarming the area for months.
Tens of millions of dollars were spent. Eventually, the job done, they went home and attention drifted elsewhere.
The roughly 1,200 residents of Palomares would like to put the accident behind them as well. Livelihoods these days have moved beyond farming and depend more and more on attracting sun-starved northerners to vast stretches of beachfront apartments and manicured golf oases.
But the past has resurfaced literally with recent findings of unusually radioactive snails and the confiscation of fresh tracts of land for additional testing and cleanup. Not exactly a selling point for the melons and tomatoes still grown in large-scale, plastic-covered greenhouses nearby, much less a carefree life by the sea.
"This is damaging the village," said a retired farmer, 74-year-old Antonio, smoking outside the Palomares senior center/library/café one recent afternoon. "It's been going on for 40 years. We want this to be over forever." His friends used more unprintable language, their patience with the never-ending questions worn thin.
Much of the uncertainty today goes back to the secrecy imposed at the time, the height of the Cold War, by the repressive Franco regime and the U.S. military.
It started just after 10 a.m. on a clear winter's day.
"There was a big explosion," Antonio, who declined to give his last name, grudgingly recounted. "There was a big explosion. Things were flying all over. Everybody rushed outside." No one knew what had happened, but the first U.S. soldiers from joint bases in Spain arrived within hours. Only after the Soviets accused Washington of violating a nuclear test ban treaty did the United States concede, more than a month later, that the detonators on two of the bombs had gone off on impact.
