Scrapping B-52's

"You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much" (youcantellafinn) 05/29/2014 at 11:15 • Filed to: PLANELOPNIK

2

4

Inspired by ttyymmnn's post about !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! I dug around and found this video about how they were scrapping B-52's. I remember reading about this a long time ago. IIRC they were being scrapped to comply with START or SALT or one of the other nuclear arms reduction treaties that we signed with the U.S.S.R. To comply with the treaty they had to be cut up in specific locations and then left out for a certain amount of time to allow the Soviets to verify their destruction by satellite flyovers.

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

user314 > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 05/29/2014 at 11:29

1

I know that treaties like SALT and START make the world safer, and that destroying nuclear weapons is a good thing, but jeez do pictures like this make me sad.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > user314 05/29/2014 at 11:39

0

Just curious, are you being sarcastic about SALT/START? Because those treaties are pretty much a farce. Basically everyone agreed that they would eliminate their obsolete weapons systems to comply with the treaties while maintaining enough nuclear arms to destroy the world 3 times over instead of 5 times. As for the B-52's that got destroyed, they were early airframes and parts planes that weren't worth upgrading to the latest specification.

user314 > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 05/29/2014 at 12:17

0

Maybe just a little. I just remember the overblown coverage at the time, with the newsies acting like those treaties were the end of war entirely.

And yeah, I know those were old, tired BUFFs, but its still sad to see them chopped up and left out to rot like that, even if it was only for thirty days, IIRC.

FJ80WaitinForaLSV8 > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 05/29/2014 at 14:31

0

this breaks my heart