The U.S. Air Force nearly detonated an atomic bomb over North Carolina in 1961 that would have been 260 times more powerful than the device that destroyed Hiroshima, according to a declassified report published Friday in The Guardian.
The 1969 document, obtained by investigative journalist Eric Schlosser under the Freedom of Information Act, details the Jan. 23, 1961, B-52 crash near Goldsboro, North Carolina, that saw two Mark 39 hydrogen bombs break up in mid-air.
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The USA government keeps secrets from citizens.... I am shocked SHOCKED
ReplyDeleteThis has been public knowledge for a long time, why are all the media outlets just running this now?
ReplyDeleteFor millions of years asteroids have barely missed the Earth.With no way to stop one from eventually hitting us we really don't need to know.Airplanes armed with nukes fly over every day.We don't need to know that either.
ReplyDeleteGood point we should never question anything our goverment does.
Deletenonetheless I would still rather have a nuke free world...
ReplyDeleteEven power by nukes is scary knowing that the japan disaster can happen any time and the face we have 3 on 3 mile island on the east coast...