Comments by "Arthur Mosel" (@arthurmosel808) on "How Close Do You Live to a Nuclear Bomb?" video.

  1. The locations that he stated are too general to be of use.
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  2. True except when carried on nuclear standby, which was the case when almost all US losses occurred; however, the fusing wouldn't be set unless they were actually going beyond the point at which they were orbiting.
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  3. Why can't you find a lost bomb, lack of precise location, settling into mire at depth, dropping into an under water canyon. On land, dropping straight down and burying itself too deep for recovery, too damaged for recovery so you dig a hole and bury the remains an then cement over it. Not even knowing where to look because the aircraft was out of normal radar coverage and hadn't sent a message, so where do you look on the flight path. The video makes. It scarier than it needs to be, not to say there isn't danger, but it is grossly exaggerated.
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  4. Modern US nuclear weapons are designed not to explode unless properly fused and initizted. They are designed to go nuclear only if the initiating explosions all go off as required; if they don't, no nuclear explosion will occur. The high explosive used burns rather than explodes if it is exposed to fire. I have seen the test films of a nuclear bomb (no nuclear material but with an equivalent weight in the casing) dropped from an aircraft above 30,000 feet and over 500 mph, and there was no explosion (it wasn't fused) and no detonation of the explosives used to detonate it. Similarly, nuclear material is normally shipped in casks that can survive the impact of a speeding train without failing. I can't say much about Soviet or. Russian Federation nuclear weapons except they were still using many gun tube devices long after we stopped.
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  5. The nuclear material is normally transport in casks that can survive a hit by a locomotive. Part of my training include wat c h videos of the tests of that type of cask. There are far worse things on the highway than nuclear materials, and there is far less safety involved in their movement, and they don't belong to the US Government.
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  6. I doubt someone taking a walk found it the response team would have closed the area and been searching.
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  7.  @emerson6111  I have some idea. Planning response for nuclear accidents and attacks was one element of my duties.
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