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Encyclopedia > Broken Arrow

Broken Arrow or broken arrow can refer to several things.

  • Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, a city near Tulsa, Oklahoma.
  • Broken Arrow (1996 film), a 1996 action movie starring John Travolta (the title relates to the first military definition below).
  • Broken Arrow (1950 film), a 1950 Western movie which won a Golden Globe award.
  • Broken Arrow (TV series), a television series that ran on ABC from 1956 to 1960.
  • Broken Arrow (album), released in 1996 by Neil Young and Crazy Horse.
  • Broken Arrow (song), released in 1967 by Buffalo Springfield on the album Buffalo Springfield Again.
  • Broken Arrow (band), a German nu metal band
  • Broken Arrow, a song released in 1987 by Robbie Robertson on his eponymous solo album and later remade by Rod Stewart on his 1991 album Vagabond Heart and released as a single in 1992.
  • Broken Arrow (Finnish Heavy Metal), a Finnish heavy metal band
  • In United States military nuclear incident terminology:
    • A broken arrow is an accidental event that involves nuclear weapons or nuclear components but does not create the risk of nuclear war.
    • Broken arrow is also a code word that has been used to request close air support from all available aircraft when a ground position is in extreme danger of being overrun by enemy troops. This type of code word was last used in Operation Iraqi Freedom (April 2007) and is a plot element in movies such as We Were Soldiers.
  • The error code displayed on line 25 of an IBM's 3270 terminal for various kinds of protocol violations and “unexpected” error conditions (including connection to a down computer) is also called a broken arrow. On a PC, this is simulated with ‘->/_’, with the two center characters overstruck.

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Broken Arrow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (427 words)
Broken Arrow is a city in Oklahoma near Tulsa.
Broken Arrow is the name of a song released in 1987 by Robbie Robertson and later remade by Rod Stewart.
Broken arrow is also a code word used to request close air support from all available aircraft when a ground position is in extreme danger of being overrun by enemy troops.
Broken Arrow (1996 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1041 words)
Broken Arrow is a 1996 American action motion picture starring John Travolta as Major Vic Deakins with Christian Slater as Captain Riley Hale.
Broken Arrow was released on Friday, February 9, 1996 and although it was disappointing to die-hard fans of the director John Woo's other films, it was modestly successful.
In official United States military nuclear incident terminology, a PINNACLE - BROKEN ARROW is "an accidental event involving nuclear weapons or nuclear components but does not create the risk of nuclear war".
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