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The U.S. Air Force Accidentally Dropped a Nuclear Bomb in Georgia—and Still Can’t Find It
In 2001, a Department of Energy hydrographic survey suggested that the bomb was buried between five and 15 feet of silt. The ...
How to survive nuclear war after a bomb is dropped: what to do, how to prepare
To date, only the US has ever dropped nuclear bombs on a population — in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Still, the number of nuclear warheads in military stockpiles continues t ...
'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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Operation Sundial: The Terrifying 10-Gigaton Nuclear Weapon That (Thankfully) Never Was
Imagine the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 and then multiply it by 670,000 times. Terrifying doesn't really ...
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'We thought it was the end of the world': How the US dropped four nuclear bombs on Spain in 1966
a missing nuclear weapon for which the US military had been desperately searching for 80 days was finally found. The warhead, with an explosive power 100 times that of the bomb dropped on ...