The Goldsboro crash: the terrifying accidental doomsday that almost happened.
Reblogged from www.seanmunger.com:
Today's date, January 24, was almost a day of tragedy in American history that would have ranked right up there, or even surpassed, December 7 and September 11. Fifty-three years ago today, on January 24, 1961, a U.S. Air Force B-52 fell out of the sky near Goldsboro, North Carolina. It happened to be carrying two nuclear weapons. They almost detonated.
Sean, there was a similar crash in Grantsville, Maryland, around the same time. It recently got some press because it was the 50th anniversary. If I remember right it was the same type of bomber and it was also carrying 2 nuclear warheads. I was working for the newspaper out that way some years back when they erected a memorial to the crash. The problem with the Maryland crash is that the wreckage was strewn over miles and the bombs were found in an isolated area of the Appalachian Mountains.
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