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Broken Arrow incidents. The US Department of Defense has officially recognized at least 32 "Broken Arrow" incidents from 1950 to 1980. [6] Examples of these events include: 1950 British Columbia B-36 crash. 1956 B-47 disappearance. 1958 Mars Bluff B-47 nuclear weapon loss incident. 1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision.
A "Broken Arrow" incident originated from a minimum interval takeoff incident on December 8, 1964. During a normal MITO at Bunker Hill Air Force Base , Indiana, a delta-winged B-58 Hustler , loaded with five nuclear weapons, suffered a landing gear failure.
Loss of two nuclear reactors and either 32 or 48 warheads [ 76 ][ 77 ][ 78 ][ nb 1 ] 480 miles (770 km) east of Bermuda, the Soviet Yankee I-class submarine K-219 experienced an explosion in one of its missile tubes and at least three crew members were killed. Sixteen nuclear missiles and two reactors were on board.
Date. 29–30 August 2007. Location. Minot AFB, North Dakota, and Barksdale AFB, Louisiana. 48°25′3″N 101°21′0″W / 48.41750°N 101.35000°W / 48.41750; -101.35000. Result. Six nuclear warheads mishandled and unaccounted for, or improperly secured, for approximately 36 hours. On 29 August 2007, six AGM-129 ACM cruise ...
Broken Arrow (nuclear), an accidental nuclear event involving nuclear weapons, warheads, or components which does not create the risk of nuclear war. "Broken Arrow", a code phrase notably used during the 1965 Battle of Ia Drang to indicate an American combat unit was in danger of being overrun. Broken Arrow Skyrace, a trail running event in ...
The Palomares incident occurred on 17 January 1966, when a B-52G bomber of the United States Air Force 's Strategic Air Command collided with a KC-135 tanker during mid-air refueling at 31,000 feet (9,450 m) over the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Spain. The KC-135 was destroyed when its fuel load ignited, killing all four crew members.
The Damascus Titan missile explosion (also called the Damascus accident[1]) was a 1980 U.S. nuclear weapons incident involving a Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). The incident occurred on September 18–19, 1980, at Missile Complex 374-7 in rural Arkansas when a U.S. Air Force LGM-25C Titan II ICBM loaded with a 9-megaton W-53 ...
The Tybee Island mid-air collision was an incident on February 5, 1958, in which the United States Air Force lost a 7,600-pound (3,400 kg) Mark 15 nuclear bomb in the waters off Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia, United States. During a night practice exercise, an F-86 fighter plane collided with the B-47 bomber carrying the large weapon.