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#TIL of this wild event, when, in 1961, a bomber carrying two nuclear bombs crashed in North Carolina and the bombs did not detonate.

https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2021/01/remembering-the-night-two-atomic-bombs-fell-on-north-carolina


The night two atomic bombs fell—on North Carolina

Sixty years ago, at the height of the Cold War, a B-52 bomber disintegrated over a small Southern town. An eyewitness recalls what happened next.
National Geographic
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