Nuclear disaster?

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KentPhilip replied

23 September 2013, 09:38
More details here:

1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Apparently there is still a lump of uranium down there that had sunk so deep it could not be recovered.
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Troll replied

23 September 2013, 08:02
Originally posted by zeitghost

4Mt would have made a fair old flash.

Glad someone got it ..
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Troll replied

21 September 2013, 10:44
You certain no one tried teaching it Phenomenology?
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BrilloPad started a topic Nuclear disaster?

21 September 2013, 08:25
Nuclear disaster?

The plane was on a routine flight when it began to break up over North Carolina on 23 January 1961.

As it was breaking apart, a control inside the cockpit released the two Mark 39 hydrogen bombs over Goldsboro.

One fell to the ground unarmed. But the second "assumed it was being deliberately released over an enemy target - and went through all its arming mechanisms save one, and very nearly detonated over North Carolina," Mr Schlosser told the BBC's Katty Kay.

Only the failure of a single low-voltage switch prevented disaster, he said.

BBC News - US plane in 1961 'nuclear bomb near-miss'

That was a close one.....
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