lol Washington State just had like 7/8ths of a BROKEN ARROW lmao

that one didn't have a warhead, but they probably didn't know that when they got the call and sent an EOD tech.

these rockets were made before PAL, the Permissive Action Link that prevents nuclear weapons from being used without central sign-off, aka, if this had a warhead it would have been one of the spiciest broken arrow events in history outside of those two nuclear bombs we dropped on Goldsboro, North Carolina.

"To ztop ze kommunisten bomber gruppe from nucklearizing ze kontinental Amerika, we must nuklearize ze bomber gruppe!"

It wasn't until like mid 60s that "nuclear" stopped being the buzzword that got your project funded faster than anything mentioning AI is today.

you don't really need guidance when the effective hitbox is 1/3 of a kilometer tbh

here's when they tested it

the orange cloud is oxides of nitrogen from the heat and radiation burning the air