70 Punished in Accidental B-52 Flight (armed, yet!)

My tuppence worth:-

Tereis no way it would get anywhere near being Armed; Armed means
ready to drop.

Loaded is entirely different; weapons can be loaded on an aircraft
and be perfectly safe, but armed is a whole different kettle of
fish. Particularly for Special Weapons, which need, typically, three
components with extreme safeguards on each, to be brought together
and assembled before anything remotely like instant sunshine can
occur. On top of that special coded sequences while in flight have
to be carried out for the weapons to self -arm (in the old days Core
assembly in flight was done manually).
Cunning Plan!!! I'll give you a Cunning Plan!

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