Several wildfires are scorching the Texas panhandle with thousands evacuated

Several wildfires are scorching the Texas panhandle with thousands evacuated

Wildfires sweeping across Texas briefly forced the evacuation of America’s main nuclear weapons facility as strong winds, dry grass and unseasonably warm temperatures fed the blaze.

Pantex Plant, the main facility that assembles and disassembles America’s nuclear arsenal, shut down its operations on Tuesday night as the Windy Deuce fire roared towards the Potter County location.

  • gibmiser@lemmy.world
    851·
    1 year ago

    Sounds like climate change is a national security threat. Bring on the DOD spending!

    • Neato@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      29·
      1 year ago

      Welp, we’ve bombed the fires. it didn’t really put them out but it completely cleared all land of any vegetation. So…win, I guess?

      • Badabinski@kbin.social
        131·
        1 year ago

        You joke, but using air dropped bombs to put out fires is a tactic that’s been used for quite a while. probably not the best thing to do next to a site with nuclear materials on-hand, but it’s absolutely been done before.