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10 Of The Worst Military Accidents Involving Nuclear Weapons Throughout History
Over the decades, a series of military accidents involving nuclear weapons put millions of lives at risk. Governments on both ...
'We thought it was the end of the world': How the US dropped four nuclear bombs on Spain in 1966
After two planes collided, three hydrogen bombs hit a Spanish village, and one fell into the sea nearby. Two years later, ...
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America's missing nuclear weapons as 'Broken Arrow' incidents expose atomic-grade mishaps
The USA reportedly still possesses over 5,000 nuclear warheads - which is enough to destroy most life on Earth - but the ...
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10 warplanes that definitely shouldn’t have carried nuclear weapons, but did
BOOM BOOM BOOM In researching this article, I spoke to crews of B-52s, B-47s and Vulcans and even chatted on a train with a ...
A lesson buried in the Mediterranean: How a mid-air collision dropped four US nuclear bombs on Spain in 1966
On the morning of January 17, 1966, an American B-52 bomber on a secret mission over Cold War-era Europe collided mid-air ...
Development of nuclear bomb 24 times more powerful than Hiroshima's is 'significantly ahead of schedule'
The National Nuclear Security Administration said development for a bomb 24 times more powerful than the one dropped on ...
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US accelerates production of new nuclear warhead 24 times more powerful than one used on Hiroshima
The weapon is designed to become the full-time replacement for the US’ older nuclear weapons carried by new US B-21 stealth bombers. The original B61 gravity bomb was created in 1968 ...
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America Moves Up Construction of Nuclear Bomb 24 Times More Powerful Than One Dropped on Hiroshima
The lab designing the warhead says it is accelerating the timeline to respond ‘to a critical challenge and urgent need.’ ...
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'We thought it was the end of the world': How the US dropped four nuclear bombs on Spain in 1966
Two years after the terrifying accident, BBC reporter Chris Brasher went to find what happened when the US lost a hydrogen bomb. On 7 April 1966, almost 60 years ago this week, a missing nuclear ...