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December 10, 2014

Honey, there's a nuclear bomb in the yard
Vienna (AFP) Dec 10, 2014
When a nuclear bomb landed in the Gregg yard in South Carolina in 1958, it left a big crater, killed a few chickens, caused the family minor injuries and wrecked their Chevrolet. Luckily, the device that had fallen out of a B-47 bomber after Captain Bruce Kulka accidentally grabbed a lever opening the bomb bay - almost falling out himself - was not fully armed with a fissile core. But other US aircraft routinely flew carrying fully-primed nuclear weapons, and the incident, as highlighted in th ... read more

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