British atomic bomb FELL OFF A TRUCK in Germany in 1984 and now they tell us.

Well hey, it fell off the back of a truck, it was probably broken anyway =D

Now, I'm no atomic weapons expert, but I'm pretty sure you need to do more to a nuclear bomb than drop it off a truck to make it actually detonatable? I mean, if the vehicle had crashed would it even have gone off? Maybe this is misplaced faith but I'd assume they aren't driving fully armed nuclear warheads around in trucks.

There's a reason why the atomic core is encased in high explosives.

now i have denim in my head

i think at school once they showed us a video of a train with nuclear stuff on it crashing into a concrete block, as a "test" or something.

<I>"Absolutely NO danger to the population!" - so... why the secrecy then?</I>

Or why tell it now? There's a connection to princess Diana. We'll find out in a few decades.

i think at school once they showed us a video of a train with nuclear stuff on it crashing into a concrete block, as a "test" or something.

It's here, it was more to show how safe the flasks are, rather than a test, I think http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lHtRZ_k0s7M

relax a-bombs can be destroyed by missiles while airbourne without detonating I SAW IT ON 24

The second accident occurred at Coulport naval base, Strathclyde, on December 3, 1987

Oh great.