{"id":13970,"date":"2025-07-16T19:27:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T02:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13970"},"modified":"2025-07-24T09:24:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T16:24:05","slug":"i-lived-30-miles-from-this-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13970","title":{"rendered":"I lived 30 miles from this incident"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t alive in 1968 when this accident happened, but I do remember visiting the base during a summer open house when I was quite young (likely around 5-7). I remember seeing all the fighter and bomber planes &#8211; even waiting in line to take a ride on one of the planes (but the wait was so long we ended up not doing it).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If this broken arrow accident had resulted in a nuclear detonation, I likely wouldn&#8217;t be here today since my parents lived so close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XzCviCgiZ1c?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This accident is also talked about in the absolutely fabulous books <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Command_and_Control_(book)\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Command_and_Control_(book)\">Command and Control by Eric Schlosser<\/a> and might be also mentioned in the book <a href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=3045\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=3045\">Atomic Accidents by James Mahaffey<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t alive in 1968 when this accident happened, but I do remember visiting the base during a summer open house when I was quite young (likely around 5-7). I remember seeing all the fighter and bomber planes &#8211; even waiting in line to take a ride on one of the planes (but the wait was so long we ended up not doing it). If this broken arrow accident had resulted in a nuclear detonation, I likely wouldn&#8217;t be here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13970\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3Dk","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13970"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14710,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13970\/revisions\/14710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}