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The bomber crashed 7 miles (11 km) from the airbase, rupturing the bomber's bomb bay and causing the conventional explosives in the four B28FI thermonuclear bombs to detonate, fragmenting and spreading the radioactive primary and secondary components across a large area. The burning bomber and its fuel load melted through the ice, dropping ...
The effects of MK-77 bombs are similar to those of napalm. The official designation of World War II-era napalm bombs was the Mark 47. [3] Use of aerial incendiary bombs against civilian populations, including against military targets in civilian areas, was banned in the 1980 United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons Protocol III ...
"The Historic 'Napalm Girl' Pulitzer Image Marks Its 40th Anniversary". ABC News. June 8, 2012. Archived from the original on June 9, 2012.. Wong, Julia Carrien (September 9, 2016). "Mark Zuckerberg accused of abusing power after Facebook deletes 'napalm girl' post". The Guardian. "The Story Behind the 'Napalm Girl' Photo Censored by Facebook ...
A B-1 Lancer bomber from Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota crashed while trying to land and all four crew members ejected safely, the Air Force said. The B-1 was on a training mission when ...
On 29 August 2007, six AGM-129 ACM cruise missiles, each loaded with a W80-1 variable yield nuclear warhead, were mistakenly loaded onto a United States Air Force (USAF) B-52H heavy bomber at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota and transported to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.
The aircraft crashed over the Sangre de Cristo Mountains ten miles (16 km) northwest of Mora, New Mexico. Of the crew on board, two died and four ejected successfully. On 19 November, another "E" model (tail number 56‑0655) from 6th Bombardment Wing was destroyed in a fire during maintenance work at Walker AFB, New Mexico.
The aircraft had taken off from a nearby RAF base carrying both British and Canadian airmen when it crashed during a training exercise. Ms Haslam said she had tried blocking the accident out for a ...
Kim Phuc Phan Thi, Vietnam’s “Napalm Girl,” is offering a message of hope with the world 50 years after the iconic photo that featured her was taken. The “Napalm Girl” photo was taken in ...