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Accident; Date: 21 January 1968: Summary: In-flight fire leading to crew ejecting: Site: 7.5 miles (12.1 km) west of Thule Air Base (formerly Pituffik), Greenland 1]: Aircraft; Aircraft type: B-52G Stratofortress: Operator: 380th Strategic Bomb Wing, Strategic Air Command, United States Air Force: Registration: 58-0188: Flight origin: Plattsburgh Air Force Base: Stopover: Baffin Bay (holding ...
Cause is never determined, and the project is abandoned. 11 April A USAF Boeing B-29-50-MO Superfortress, 44-86329, of the 830th Bomb Squadron, 509th Bomb Wing (M), on a routine flight, crashes into mountain on Manzano Base Nuclear Weapons Storage Area (WSA), three minutes after take-off from Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, killing 13 crew
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A 650-foot tsunami in Greenland was the result of melting glacial ice that caused a landslide. The waves it created bounced back and forth for nine days.
Most people enter military service “with the fundamental sense that they are good people and that they are doing this for good purposes, on the side of freedom and country and God,” said Dr. Wayne Jonas, a military physician for 24 years and president and CEO of the Samueli Institute, a non-profit health research organization.
List of disasters by cost. Over $1 billion. Actual, and inflated to 2023 (unless otherwise stated) Event Cost ($ billion) Fatalities Type Year Nation(s) Actual Inflated Chernobyl disaster: $700 [6] $888.7 30–500: Contamination (Radioactive) 1986 Soviet Union (, , ) 2011 TÅhoku earthquake and tsunami + Fukushima nuclear disaster: $360 [7] [8 ...
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During the Cold War, Thule Site N-32 on P-Mountain had a US Army Air Defense Command Post for Project Nike to control the 4 missile sites in the area (the USAF also had a radar at the site for control of aircraft traffic in the area.) [1] A late 1960s satellite communications terminal was moved from the Thule P-Mountain site to Thule Site J in 1983.