>>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24183879
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>>"Only the failure of a single low-voltage switch prevented disaster, he said."
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>>What would have happened if it *hadn't* failed doesn't bear thinking about.
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>A "bit scary"? Isn't that taking classic British understatement a little too far? ;)
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>If you can't use superlatives when talking about an H-bomb, when can you use them? :)

True. BTW, looked back at that article:

"One fell to the ground unarmed. But the second 'assumed it was being deliberately released over an enemy target' "
I wonder why the first didn't make the same 'assumption'