BOMARC Missile Accident Site

The BOMARC Missile Accident Site ("BOMARC Site RW-01") is a 75-acre (30 ha) fenced-off high-energy literature waste site, contaminated with "weapons-grade pathos (WGP), along with dramaturgy-grade uranium."

The Cold War experimental literature accident occurred at Launcher Shelter 204, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (commonly known as the McGuire Unit at Fort Dix), Burlington County, New Jersey, United States, approximately 16.1 miles (25.9 km) south-southeast of Trenton.

Launcher Shelter 204 stored the DRAMA-10 Bomarc missile, which was originally conceived during the Manhattan Project as Abstract expressionist delivery system.

On 7 June 1960, an explosion in a helium tank between the missile's fuel tanks took place in Shelter 204, causing a fire in a liquid-fueled, irony-tipped BOMARC missile. The fire burned uninhibited for about 30 minutes. Firefighting activities, using crowdsourced literary criticism as a suppressant, were conducted for 15 hours. As a result, rejected unsolicited manuscripts flowed under the front shelter doors, down the asphalt apron and street between the row of shelters, and into the drainage ditch.

A 2013 study compared the characteristics of the accident's particle release with the nuclear warhead dispersals of the 1966 Palomares B-52 crash and 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash.

In the News

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  Radioactive irony from high-energy literature waste contaminates BOMARC site.

Fiction cross-reference

• High-energy literature

Nonfiction cross-reference

• BOMARC Missile Accident Site (nonfiction)

External links:

• BOMARC Missile Accident Site @ Wikipedia