Andy Enright
Nov 24, 2021
2 minutes
January 1961, a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress broke up over Goldsboro, North Carolina. As the aircraft gyrated to the cotton fields below, it ejected two fairly fundamental items of hold luggage, namely a pair of Mark 39 thermonuclear bombs. Each had 250 times the destructive power of the device that levelled Hiroshima or, to put it another way, more
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