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Post by yenilira on Dec 30, 2011 15:34:51 GMT 1
A month after the “little bomb gone missing” incident, the American military had another.
On March 11, 1958, another B-47 bomber took off from Hunter Army Air Field (the same one at which the previous-discussed B-47 made its emergency landing), bringing a nuclear weapon (in this case, a Mark 6 bomb) to the United Kingdom.
While airborne, the plane signalled that the bomb was not properly secured, and the navigator went back to check. While doing so, he slipped and accidentally grabbed the emergency release cord, dropping the bomb into a rural part of Georgia. The bomb thankfully did not have any plutonium in it — the nuclear parts of the bomb were, effectively, packed separately — but it did have enough explosives to create a large mushroom cloud upon its landing and detonation.
It left a 75 foot wide, 30 foot deep crater, and destroyed the home of a local resident.
Apparently, no one died directly from the blast, but other reports suggest there was one related death.
YL.
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