{"id":3511,"date":"2016-12-01T21:01:46","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T21:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/?p=3511"},"modified":"2016-12-01T21:01:46","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T21:01:46","slug":"summaries-of-nuclear-weapon-and-material-accidents-department-of-energy-national-nuclear-security-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/summaries-of-nuclear-weapon-and-material-accidents-department-of-energy-national-nuclear-security-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"Summaries of Nuclear Weapon and Material Accidents &#8211; Department of Energy &#8211; National Nuclear Security Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>While sifting through thousands of different pages of documents, I found references to some previously, never-before-released (that I saw) documents about nuclear accidents.<\/p>\n<p>I have always been fascinated by the topic, ever since I saw the 1996 film Broken Arrow. \u00a0Yes, I know, a bit cheesy, but I was 15 when it came out &#8211; and I was just about to start The Black Vault. I was fascinated to learn, that Broken Arrow was a real term, and in fact, nuclear accidents have plagued American history. So, \u00a0when I saw these documents existed, I had to get them!<\/p>\n<p>It took quite a few years &#8211; and my FOIA requests bounced around from a few offices. I had to refile to the NNSA in 2015, and in September of 2016, finally received them, declassified.<\/p>\n<h3>Declassified Documents<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/nnsa\/15-00254-SL.pdf\">FOIA Response Letter, Dated September 15, 2016<\/a> [3 Pages, 1.1MB]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/nnsa\/RS1651-079-5-2-71.pdf\">History of Accidents Involving Nuclear Materials, May 2, 1971<\/a>\u00a0[5 Pages, 1.8MB]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/nnsa\/RS1544-11106-2-6-68.pdf\">Summary of Air Force Nuclear Accidents, February 6, 1968<\/a>\u00a0[4 Pages, 2.2MB]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/nnsa\/RS3415-48065-5-25-66.pdf\">History of Accidents Involving Nuclear Materials, May 25, 1966<\/a>\u00a0[8 Pages, 19.9MB]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background While sifting through thousands of different pages of documents, I found references to some previously, never-before-released (that I saw) documents about nuclear accidents. I have always been fascinated by the topic, ever since I saw the 1996 film Broken Arrow. \u00a0Yes, I know, a bit cheesy, but I was 15 when it came out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,16],"tags":[416,447,448,445,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-3511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-military-defense","8":"category-military-and-commercial-accidents","9":"category-nuclear-weapons","10":"tag-accidents","11":"tag-bent-spear","12":"tag-broken-arrow","13":"tag-dull-sword","14":"tag-nuclear"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2016-12-01_13-00-12.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}