https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Also—it's a smaller point, but while I have you: can you please not use uppercase for emphasis on HN? That's also in the guidelines, and it looks like your comments have done that a lot. As the guidelines explain, if you want to emphasize text, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized. Using allcaps is basically yelling, and it has the effect of evoking worse from others.
It's the sort of incident Dr. Strangelove predicted might accidentally cause a nuclear war.
Otherwise every time you transport one it could end in disaster.
> Information newly declassified in 2013 showed that one of the bombs came very close to detonating.
> In 2013, Revelle recalled the moment the second bomb's switch was found: "Until my death I will never forget hearing my sergeant say, 'Lieutenant, we found the arm/safe switch.' And I said, 'Great.' He said, 'Not great. It's on arm.'"
If I'm reading the article right, the other bomb also had the other three arming steps happen and was stopped only by the arm/safe switch, so between the two bombs, each of the four safety steps failed.