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HistoryPhotos is for photographs (or, if it can be found, film) of the past, recent or distant! Give us a little snapshot of history!

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Photos MUST be at LEAST 10 years old, and ideally over 20. We appreciate that we are living through events which will become history, but this is ultimately not a comm for news or current affairs, but events which have occurred some time in the past.

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Nuclear consent switch on an F-16 Fighting Falcon (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world to c/historyphotos@piefed.social

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[–] zakobjoa@lemmy.world 30 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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"Enjoy your 350kg of radioactive scrap, fuckers!"

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[–] ZJBlank@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Gives them a way to jettison the bomb in an emergency, like before a forced landing or crash. A flaming pile of wrecked airplane is bad enough without a nuke also being on fire

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[–] ThePrimitive@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Or gives person with a conscience a way out of vaporizing a few hundred thousand people.

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[–] modus@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Tybee_Island_mid-air_collision

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