{"id":839,"date":"2004-01-26T17:26:10","date_gmt":"2004-01-26T23:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photomatt.net\/2004\/01\/26\/only-in-texas\/"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"only-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ma.tt\/2004\/01\/only-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Only In Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just in time for the Superbowl, Homer Simpson let loose on US nuclear weapons facility<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the first incident, highly-skilled operatives inadvertently drilled into the warhead’s core, provoking a full-scale evacuation of Pantex. They later made a second Chernobylesque blunder by bodging a highly-explosive warhead part back together with tape.<\/p>\n

Had they subsequently dropped the component, the likely outcome would have been a “violent reaction”, with “potentially unacceptable consequences”, as safety board chairman John T. Conway rather conservatively put it<\/a>. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hat tip: evilbunny on #hwug<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just in time for the Superbowl, Homer Simpson let loose on US nuclear weapons facility. In the first incident, highly-skilled operatives inadvertently drilled into the warhead’s core, provoking a full-scale evacuation of Pantex. They later made a second Chernobylesque blunder by bodging a highly-explosive warhead part back together with tape. Had they subsequently dropped the … Continue reading Only In Texas<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"fullscreen","default_image_id":54207,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/ma.tt\/2004\/01\/only-in-texas\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Only In Texas","url":"http:\/\/ma.tt\/2004\/01\/only-in-texas\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/ma.tt\/2004\/01\/only-in-texas\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Humor","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Matt"}],"creator":["Matt"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Matt Mullenweg","logo":"http:\/\/ma.tt\/files\/2021\/05\/Photo-on-2020-10-28-at-2.05-PM-1.jpg"},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2004-01-26T23:26:10Z","datePublished":"2004-01-26T23:26:10Z","dateModified":"2004-01-26T23:26:10Z"},"rendered":"