with the number of nuclear weapons in the world now, and how old a lot are, how is it possible we’ve never accidentally set one off?

Question

Title says it. Really curious how we’ve escaped this kind of occurrence anywhere in the world, for the last ~70 years.

In: Engineering

Answer 1

A. There are multitudes and multitudes of safeguards to prevent accidental detonating. However…

B. A far more worrying statistic is how many nukes have been accidentally deployed, *and cannot be located*…