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Broken Arrow or broken arrow can refer to several things.
- Broken Arrow is a city in Oklahoma near Tulsa.
- Broken Arrow is a 1996 action movie starring John Travolta (the title relates to the first military definition below).
- Broken Arrow is a 1950 Western movie which won a Golden Globe award.
- Broken Arrow is the name of a television series that ran from 1956 to 1960.
- Broken Arrow is the name of an album released in 1996 by Neil Young and Crazy Horse.
- Broken Arrow is the name of a song released in 1967 by Buffalo Springfield on the album Buffalo Springfield Again.
- Broken Arrow is the name of a song released in 1987 by Robbie Robertson and later remade by Rod Stewart.
- Broken Arrow is the name of a Finnish heavy metal band, influenced by Saxon, Iron Maiden,and solo guitarists like Yngwie Malmsteen and Eric Johnson
- In United States military terminology:
- A broken arrow is an accidental event that involves nuclear weapons or nuclear components but does not create the risk of nuclear war. There are 11 weapons known missing from the United States' arsenal (this is known not as Broken Arrow, but as an Empty Quiver). One of these is the Tybee Bomb which is presumed to be located underwater off the coast of Savannah, Georgia.
See also List of military nuclear accidents, United States military nuclear incident terminology - 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. This was last used in the Vietnam War, and is a plot element in movies such as We Were Soldiers.
- A broken arrow is an accidental event that involves nuclear weapons or nuclear components but does not create the risk of nuclear war. There are 11 weapons known missing from the United States' arsenal (this is known not as Broken Arrow, but as an Empty Quiver). One of these is the Tybee Bomb which is presumed to be located underwater off the coast of Savannah, Georgia.
- The error code displayed on line 25 of a IBM's 3270 terminal (or a PC emulating a 3270) 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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