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broken arrow
noun- an accident involving nuclear weapons US
- Mr. Affeldt said that he learned of the incident when he received a telephone call from a regional office saying that personnel monitoring radio traffic had overheard a message containing the code word “broken arrow,” which he said indicated “a major accident with a nuclear weapon aboard” — New York Times, p. A13, 17 September 1980
- — Eric S. Raymond, The New Hacker’s Dictionary, p. 79, 1991
- It might not have been a “broken arrow” nuclear missile accident, but a mishap that damaged a Bangor Trident submarine ballistic missiple and was kept under wraps by the Navy until this week threatens broken trust on an international scale. — Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p. B1, 13 March 2004
- in computing, an error code on line 25 of a 3270 terminal US
- — Eric S. Raymond, The New Hacker’s Dictionary, p. 79, 1991
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