Comments by "Ted Moss" (@tedmoss) on "The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered" channel.

  1.  @AndrewVelonis  The movie name is Dr. Strangelove because he was homosexual. The Actor Slim Pickens played the character that rode the bomb and they surely knew the real story.
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  2. This was an interesting piece of history. I was there along with my twin brother, Jim when the bunker went up. And up it did, the pictures of the explosion are not correct, they were of other explosions somewhere else. I saw it with my own eyes and could never forget what it looked like. When it went off, I was lying in my bunk awake. The shock rocked the bunk about 6 inches (the whole barracks actually). The windows were open, so they did not blow out. I got up and ran to the window and could see across the field and through the fence, the prettiest little mushroom cloud you could ever want to see. Everything went straight up, there was practically no wind and it was warm that day. I'd estimate (good eyes) the pieces I could see went more than a mile into the air and less than 2 miles because of triangulation. I was a mile and not more than 2 miles away. I have seen other explosions before and after that one. I can say it was the biggest. It was 209 700 lb bombs equivalent, a real Broken Arrow.
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  3. No, the one outside Moscow was bigger.
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  4. Just a little lie, no pictures were taken because it shook people up so much. It was a mushroom cloud alright.
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  5. You mean picked up on earthquake detection equipment or seismograph, in very wide use at the time because of using them to pick up Nuclear explosions around the world, as well as earthquakes. They had one in the Franklin mine when I worked there, just before going into the USAF in 1963, 3,000 feet underground and about 1/4 mile long.
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  6. Your click-bait headline reminds me of a title for a book, "We almost lost Detroit".
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  7. Along with Arizona and Kansas.
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  8. Having been at Lackland at the time, I think you are correct, The President's assassination took precedence, and rightly so.
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  9.  @thetransmogrifer2522  The simple answer here is don't believe what the Marines tell you.
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  10.  @Houndini  Not the mindset of cold war tech's. Still, I never would have done it.
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  11. I helped restore 22 of those WWII Cubs at Sussex Airport in N.J. around 1959. I still build and fly model planes.
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  12. No, its worse, see the current situation with Russia.
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  13.  @Zoomie932  I was in from 1963 to 1967 and I was there when it happened. About a mile or two away. I could see the bunkers. Pres. Kennedy was assassinated on Nov 22, around that time which is all that people remember...
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  14.  @spvillano  What do you mean? There wasn't a single piece left! Some pieces weighing over 20 tons went at least a mile into the air! I saw it while they were still flying up! 204 Atom bomb (TNT) cores at once!
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  15.  @jelink22  Hard to say from this distance, don't forget that the Titan I was replaced in 1966-7 by the Titan II which used nitrogen tetroxide (oxidizer) and unsymmetrical dimethyl hydrazine (fuel) as its propellants.
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  16. It's on Wikipedia.
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