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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.
The Broken Arrow of Camelot: An Analysis of the 1961 B-52 Crash and Loss of the Nuclear Weapon in Faro, North Carolina (Thesis). East Carolina University. Knaack, Marcelle Size (1988). Post-World War II Bombers, 1945–1973 (PDF). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 978-0160022609. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 November 2011
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 ...
Able Archer 83. Able Archer 83 was a military exercise conducted by NATO that took place in November 1983, as part of an annual exercise conducted in November 1983. It simulated a period of heightened nuclear tensions between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, leading to concerns that it could have been mistaken for a real attack by the Soviet Union.
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.
Broken Arrow – The Declassified History of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Accidents. Lulu. ISBN 978-1-4357-0361-2 "Broken Arrow – Palomares, Spain" (PDF). USAF Nuclear Safety. 52. Directorate of Nuclear Safety, United States Air Force. September–October 1966. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 November 2011
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 B-Dienst, created in the early 1930s, had broken the most widely used British naval code by 1935. When war came in 1939, B-Dienst specialists had broken enough British naval codes that the Germans knew the positions of all British warships. They had further success in the early stages of the war as the British were slow to change their codes.