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Air Force personnel working in an underground pit to recover parts of the MK-39 nuclear bomb The battered MC-722 Arm/Safe Switch from Weapon No. 2 in the Goldsboro B-52 accident, 1961. Weapon no. 2 (kept in the forward bomb bay) separated from the B-52 later than weapon no. 1, when it was between 5,000 feet (1,500 m) and 2,000 feet (610 m ...
A Mark 6 nuclear bomb, similar to the one dropped in the incident, at the National Museum of the United States Air Force.. On March 11, 1958, a U.S. Air Force Boeing B-47E-LM Stratojet from Hunter Air Force Base operated by the 375th Bombardment Squadron of the 308th Bombardment Wing near Savannah, Georgia, took off at approximately 4:34 PM and was scheduled to fly to the United Kingdom and ...
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.
As it was, the bomb’s conventional TNT payload still did significant damage to the nearby Mars Bluff home of the Gregg family when it landed in a wooded area on March 11, 1958, and left the ...
On November 4, 1958, a B-47 with a Mark 39 Mod 1 (sealed pit) weapon on board crashed and exploded shortly after takeoff (for a training mission) from Dyess Air Force Base, near Abilene, Texas. The high-explosives in the weapon's primary detonated, dispersing depleted uranium , highly enriched uranium , and lead .
The F-16D skidded into a C-141B Starlifter, AF Ser No. 66-0173, at the Green Ramp, Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina, where paratroopers from adjacent Fort Bragg were preparing for a drop mission. The ensuing explosion sent debris raining down on soldiers and airmen waiting to board the C-141.
1964 Operation Chrome Dome Map from Sheppard Air Force Base, TX 1966 overview of US airborne alert routes, based on a document used by White House staff.. Operation Chrome Dome was a United States Air Force Cold War-era mission from 1961 to 1968 in which B-52 strategic bomber aircraft armed with thermonuclear weapons remained on continuous airborne alert, flying routes that put them in ...
Following such reports, Raleigh police deploy bomb technicians and apprentices, along with possibly bomb sniffing dogs, robots, X-ray devices or other tools needed to determine if actual ...