Quicksand Fans

H/t to CDR Sal (who's the one discussing it over at USNI Blog)

There Are Bad Ideas....

Umm...
No


And, perhaps hunting down and killing all involved with this 'idea' or 'study' or 'heywouldntitbekewlif!' bullshit.....

It's official- we're all gonna die.

Curtis LeMay, or Tommy Power for that matter, would have had these useless bits of protoplasm busted to Airman, then reassigned to somewhere north of Thule. Or Alert. And if they all died in a crash en route, that's unfortunate.... the crew got out, eh?

Bump for the book;
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

This the Kindle , and at Amazon.ca but you get the gist. Worth the read. Interesting stuff, and shows how dangerous a job working on these things was. And, for trivia bonus, how close the site(s) were to a present day sinking studio