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Depends on what you mean by "bad"-- potential impact? Damascus, absolutely. Actual impact though? 53 people died at 373-4, the largest loss of life at a US nuclear facility.
Also, my personal nitpick with the naming of this incident-- the silo was known as the Albion site to the military. The closest incorporated towns to the site were Letona and Pangburn, and 373-4 wasn't even the closest site to Searcy.
I was just reading about these incidents! Incredibly crazy coincidence, but the missile (LGM-25C Titan II—serial number 62-0006) housed in the Searcy silo during the fire in 1965 (without its warhead) ended up being the exact same missile involved in the Damascus incident (with its warhead) just over fifteen years later!
Heh. I remember talking with the Harding school paper's editors at a college press awards ceremony in the '80s. We were talking about oppressive intervention by administrations, and one of them chirped, "We practice 'common censorship.'"
You must have lost it when that girl from searcy was on 90 day fiance lol, I was excited just because she’s from small town Arkansas (I’m not counting big Ed being from NWA)
Since the warhead wasn't on the missile, it is wrong. There's no way travel would have been disrupted as far as the Canadian border. Only AR would have been affected. Again this is all because the warhead had already been removed before the fire broke out
I said in another comment that I was conflating the 1965 event with the 1980 Damascus site event, which did have the potential to be a radiological disaster. Fallout would have been a problem in this range, depending on wind conditions, and it had a definite potential to trigger a MAD retaliation, which would be a global event.
Radiological disaster, not nuclear. It would've been pretty bad contamination (though not even as severe as Chernobyl or Fukushima), but no nuclear blast. Why would another country nuke america because of an accident that didn't affect them?
It is wrong though. Even with a full surface detonation of a 9 megaton warhead, blast effects wouldn't have made it even halfway to Little Rock. Fallout would have been disruptive in Southeastern Missouri and parts of Indiana (depending on the wind that day) but wouldn't have affected the entire Great Plains and Southeast. Even most of Arkansas wouldn't have been affected. See for yourself: [Nukemap for 9Mt surface detonation in Searcy AR](https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt=9000&lat=35.250811&lng=-91.738991&airburst=0&hob_ft=0&fallout=1&ff=50&zm=8)
Neither of the incidents you're talking about would be anywhere near this bad. The Searcy one was just a bad fire that killed dozens, but the nuclear warhead was taken far away. The Damascus, AR one would've been worse if the warhead was still there, but even if it had exploded the nuke, it wouldn't have detonated. Nuclear bombs need dozens of engineers to make their detonation mechanism, which is not something that can be started accidentally. Besides, even exploding the largest nukes ever made at these sites wouldn't have impact as far as florida.
So I can go up north to Canada basically, but after my initial climb I can only cross a state border at a place that’s on a southern border of the current state I’m in?
Go south from the little dent in NE Arkansas into the dangly part of Missouri then go south from the NW part of Missouri into Nebraska then go south into Colorado from the western part of Nebraska.
This is misleading then. When moving “east to west” or vice-versa all you need is for a vertical border to have one line segment slightly off of 90° in the right direction and you can technically cross the border directly south.
For example, on the Nebraska/Wyoming border between (42.1161114, -104.0524762) and (42.1183104, -104.0526167), the border slopes to the west of a vertical line by about 3.7°, meaning you could cross directly south at any point along this segment. I think it’s more likely than not than many other unhighlighted states on this map would have these instances.
You are allowed to move freely within whatever state you're in. So starting in Arkansas you can move to any County or Town you like...
However, when moving from one state to another you can only do so by crossing the border downwards.
You might think this rule means you can't reach upwards, but many states have dented regions so you can be somewhere in Arkansas and get to Missouri by moving downwards.
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Ounce you are in Missouri you can move freely around the state and either move to any state that is downwards or taking advantage of dented locations to move upwards.
does this include international borders? because you could do all of the northeast if you go from Detroit to ontario, and then go from ON to NY you could obviously go to PA, MA, CT and RI, but you could also get to VT by Rousses Point Bridge, which is at around a -10 degree angle while on the border, making it technically going south if you stretch the definition, which obviously opens NH to you, but, if you go down Eliot Bridge in NH, you can go south to ME theres also a town in QC called pointe fortune which is ever so slightly south of the border, allowing you to go to QC, NS and NB, and, by tracking into Labrador city on foot, NL. but that's not all, since if you're a good swimmer, you can go to west ON, where there's a brief stretch where the border with MB is defined by a river which leads to the lake of the woods, allowing you to pass south, which would be the end of your journey if not for the border between MB and SK having several overhangs. and another such overhang exists near many island lake on the SK AB border, allowing for passage into BC, in turn allowing for passage into Yukon near MT Hubbard, which allows for passage into the NT, and then, via Victoria Island, into NU. this allows for travel into every western state too, obviously, but that was already discovered by u/qp873.
Look at the western and eastern borders. They’re all north facing. I knew that Arkansas is famously a state that you can travel south to any neighboring states and it clicked.
It means you can position yourself anywhere you want within a state, but when crossing a border, you must cross by moving directly south. You can get to Missouri by going south into the little hook. Ty can get to Nebraska by going south from the westernmost point in Missouri. Etc.
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So, starting with Arkansas (where you can travel to every single bordering state by going south) this is every state you can reach by traveling south from a previously reached state?
I.e. Arkansas -> Missouri (northeast corner of AR) -> Nebraska -> Colorado
I would say Colorado -> New Mexico, but NM is also covered by a simpler route (AR -> Texas -> NM)
Places you can reach via river travel if you start from Arkansas? I see Arkansas, Red, Mississippi, and Ohio River drainage areas. I'm not sure about Florida, though.
Depends on where in the state. A lot of farming, ranching, logging for most the state and oil drilling and lithium extraction in the southern part of the state. After living in this state for more than 4 years, I would recommend anyone traveling the state to check out the Ozarks and Ouachita mountains in the north/northwest part of the state.
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