Philip K Dickhead's Journal: DOE Almost Detonates Live Nuke in Texas

A watchdog group charges a nuclear warhead nearly exploded in Texas when it was being dismantled at the government's Pantex facility near Amarillo.

The Project on Government Oversight says it has been told by knowledgeable experts that the warhead nearly detonated in 2005 because an unsafe amount of pressure was applied while it was being disassembled, The Austin American-Statesman reports

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20061215-124703-2900r

Partially correct

[Le Marteau]

Reading between the lines, I highly doubt there was any danger of those knuckleheads inadvertantly causing a nuclear reaction by 'unsafe pressures'.

As I'm sure you know, a nuke has multiple trigger charges consisting of simple (i.e. 'non nuclear') explosives, which must all go off with a very high precision, compressing the fissionable material, in order for them to create a nuclear reaction.

They were (again, reading between the lines) in danger of compressing and detonaing one or more of the trigger charge