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In 1958 an American B-47 bomber accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb on Mars Bluff South Carolina. Fortunately for the people below, only its TNT detonator went off.
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The Carolina dance with death that happened in Goldsboro in 1961 wasn’t the first. You recall our story of the nuclear bombs that dropped from a B-52 after it disintegrated in the air near Goldsboro? One bomb’s chute opened, and it landed in a tree, its nose just inches from the ground and its 6 of its 7 arming switches thrown, while its bomb bay mate buried itself 200 feet under the ground. That second bomb is still buried out there today, incapable of exploding but very much radioactive. Well, we did it again, just south of the border, in 1958. No, not that that South of the Border--not...
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