DISINFO: US nuclear bomb reportedly damaged in Europe - Photo
SUMMARY
A US nuclear bomb was reportedly damaged at an air base in the Netherlands, evidenced by a photo published in the Los Alamos National Laboratory student handbook in 2022.
A photo in a 2022 Los Alamos laboratory student manual shows four people inspecting what may be a damaged B-61 nuclear bomb.
If the image does indeed depict a damaged nuclear weapon, it will be the first publicly known case of a recent accident involving a nuclear weapon that allegedly occurred at a base in Europe.
RESPONSE
Manipulation with fear-mongering about alleged US nuclear accident in Europe.
The entire Sputnik article aims to manipulate the reader into thinking a nuclear accident took place on EU territory.
The title of this Sputnik article points to a picture as the main information of the article. The picture at the top of the article shows a nuclear explosion with no link to the alleged accident. The central part of the article displays a Twitter post showing an illustration of a military manual with dummy equipment for demonstration. The post accompanying the picture speculates that this equipment could have been damaged and real and located in Europe, possibly in the Netherlands and if all those hypothesis were real, this would mean that a non-reported accident involving a nuclear bomb happened in Europe.
The Pentagon denied these speculations: "The Pentagon has said that a picture that featured in a report by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) on Monday about apparent damage to a US nuclear bomb at a Dutch airbase was a dummy weapon used for training emergency response teams."
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