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A B-52 bomber broke up in midair in 1961. It was carrying two Mark39 thermonuclear bombs. One little electric "ready-safe" switch stood after five other failsafes failed. It was the difference between driving through North Carolina and driving around where most of North Carolina used to be. Details recently declassified (2013).
an excerpt:
"Lt. ReVelle, speaking to a writer in 2011 of the bomb that nearly detonated, said: “As far as I’m concerned we came damn close to having a Bay of North Carolina. The nuclear explosion would have completely changed the Eastern seaboard if it had gone off.”[8] He also said the size of each bomb was more than 250 times the destructive power of the Hiroshima bomb, and large enough to have a 100% kill zone of seventeen miles. Each bomb would exceed the yield of all munitions (outside of testing) ever detonated in the history of the world by TNT, gunpowder, conventional bombs, and the Hiroshima and Nagasaki blasts combined.[12]"
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1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
an excerpt:
"Lt. ReVelle, speaking to a writer in 2011 of the bomb that nearly detonated, said: “As far as I’m concerned we came damn close to having a Bay of North Carolina. The nuclear explosion would have completely changed the Eastern seaboard if it had gone off.”[8] He also said the size of each bomb was more than 250 times the destructive power of the Hiroshima bomb, and large enough to have a 100% kill zone of seventeen miles. Each bomb would exceed the yield of all munitions (outside of testing) ever detonated in the history of the world by TNT, gunpowder, conventional bombs, and the Hiroshima and Nagasaki blasts combined.[12]"
Full article:
1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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