This 1980 informational film was produced by the Air Force to depict a Defense Nuclear Agency (now Defense Threat Reduction Agency) training exercise based on a nuclear weapons accident scenario and the steps that would be taken from the time of the incident to D+7.
“A Broken what?” “Broken Arrow. It’s a Class 4 Strategic Theatre Emergency. It’s what we call it when we lose a nuclear weapon.” “I don’t know what’s scarier, losing nuclear weapons, or that it happens so often there’s actually a term for it.”
You think we routinely lose nukes?
Wow.
we lost a few between Minot and Barksdale a few years back…found ’em the next day, though.
SN, it’s a direct quote from the movie.
You couldn’t tell, because internets, but he was saying it in a Frank Whaley voice.
It’s a quote from the movie Broken Arrow. Go watch it. It’s got Travolta in it.
Well, the point is to have a special discreet term for any situation possible, and set this term ahead of time. Still funny quote though, have to admit.
Ah yes, before the dawn of the v-neck undershirt