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Two "low-order" explosions occurred during the two hours that the plane and weapons burned. The nuclear capsule was recovered intact with minor damage. [21] The "pit" of the bomb itself melted and re-solidified within the weapon case. [10] January 31, 1958 Sidi Slimane Air Base, Morocco Nuclear bomb damaged in crash [34]
The non-nuclear explosives in two of the weapons detonated upon impact with the ground, causing the dispersal of radioactive plutonium, which contaminated a 0.77-square-mile (2 km 2) area. The fourth, which fell into the Mediterranean Sea , was recovered intact after a search lasting two and a half months.
Convair B-36 Crash Reports and Wreck Sites with pictures of the crash site. Transcript of an interview with a crew survivor. 2004 Canadian documentary film about the incident. "Broken Arrow – The Declassified History of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Accidents" by Michael H. Maggelet and James C. Oskins ISBN 978-1-4357-0361-2
BMEWS antennas at Thule, with a modern Satellite Control Network radome on the right. In 1960, the USAF Strategic Air Command (SAC) began Operation Chrome Dome, a Cold War airborne alert program devised by General Thomas S. Power to fly nuclear-armed Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bombers to the borders of the Soviet Union.
The 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash was an accident that occurred near Goldsboro, North Carolina, United States, on 24 January 1961.A Boeing B-52 Stratofortress carrying two 3.8-megaton Mark 39 nuclear bombs broke up in mid-air, dropping its nuclear payload in the process.
Born in New York City on Dec. 24, 1945 — four months after the U.S. detonated nuclear weapons over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, effectively ending World War II — Meyer grew up in the shadow of the ...
The submarine Incident off Kola Peninsula was a collision between the US Navy nuclear attack submarine USS Grayling and the Russian Navy nuclear ballistic missile submarine K-407 Novomoskovsk some 150 km (90 mi) north of the Russian naval base of Severomorsk, on 20 March 1993.
More than 100 World War II-era shipwrecks decorate the seafloor around Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore -- and now, there are two fewer.According to Dutch media reports, a pair of submarines that ...