BROKEN ARROW

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'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 (Robbie Robertson song)'', 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.

★ In United States military terminology:

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★ A ''broken arrow'' is an accidental event that involves nuclear weapons or nuclear components but does not create the risk of nuclear war.

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★ ''Broken arrow'' is also a type of 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.