Broken Arrows: When Nuclear Weapons Go Wrong
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Nuclear Weapon Accidents During the 1950s
In 1946, a B-47 crashed off the coast of Morocco, killing all three crew members. On board were materials for two nuclear weapons, but not the actual weapons themselves. A diver supposedly was in the area where he claimed to have found an object that looked like part of a bomb,. But there was no corroborating evidence. In 1961, one incident came the closest to an actual nuclear explosion.
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