i mean at the top just said never anybody talk about it no one who's going to talk about it there's times that it really doesn't make sense i mean we've talked about a few of them here i mean they're not telling people that are civil defense officials nearby whether they need to be evacuated but you can very much see why they were so concerned about it i mean the people in spain didn't know they were overflying with nuclear missiles they had no idea that these bases in spain you couldn't i'm sure the spanish government did but i mean the people didn't the people would protest if they did it so there's there's reasons that we were keeping that stuff secret i mean in terms of the accidents if you think about it over the percentage of time and what's going on and the fact that the failsafes have always helped that we've never had an accidental nuclear detonation i i think you can say that the system is kind of surprisingly safe i mean some of the stuff that we're talking about today we've added quite a bit of safeguard since then but if you think about operation chrome down i mean for decades we had nuclear bombers in the air all the time because we thought that was necessary for a credible deterrent and for that to be a credible deterrent they had to have everything they needed on that plane to be able to drop and detonate large nuclear bombs and so that means that you had NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN at any given time you had multiple bombers carrying multiple bombs nuclear explosives thermonuclear explosives with everything at least on the plane that would be needed to drop that and never did slim pickens ride one at the bottom of the plane and accidentally blocked the world so if you think about the palomares incident and there were in that episode i think there were there were five i think uh nuclear accidents that were related to operation chromedown uh if if you think about that i mean uh every time one of those planes went up they were going to have multiple in their rehealing and the air force uses a a boom that is a a a rigid boom they don't use a tube the navy uses a hose the air force uses a rigid boom and that's because you could transfer a lot more fuel with a rigid boom the navy's mostly flying smaller airplanes you wouldn't want to try to fill up a b-NUMBER_TOKEN with a hose but the way that that accident occurred off of spain you see that every single time you do that you have two crews in very large aircraft that have to maintain a very small level of tolerance difference in order to prevent happening what happened there over spain how did that only happen once so the entire career of operation chrome down when they would have been every single day doing multiple refuelings of these bombers all over the world so i would say that actually they are if you look at the numbers as percentages they are exceedingly rare but you're right you only need one but i mean we've we've never had one you don't put a bar part of the bomb that allows the bomb to become a nuclear detonation in the bomb unless you're fighting to go use the bomb we've never done that but it is
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