Space Daily September 07, 2026 • 12:00

A B-52 tore apart over North Carolina in January 1961 and dropped two hydrogen bombs, and Sandia's own accident reports, released in 2021, record that one bomb powered itself up, ran its timer out and crushed its nose on impact, and that an arm-safe swit - Space Daily

A B-52 tore apart over North Carolina in January 1961 and dropped two hydrogen bombs, and Sandia's own accident reports, released in 2021, record that one bomb powered itself up, ran its timer out and crushed its nose on impact, and that an arm-safe swit - Space Daily

Two February 1961 Sandia Corporation reports, released under a Freedom of Information Act request in 2021, one for the first time and the other with far less blacked out, walk through the wreckage component by component. On the bomb whose parachute opened, th…

A B-52G on a Strategic Air Command airborne alert mission was refuelling over the Atlantic when the tanker crew told its commander he had a fuel leak in his right wing. The tanker pulled away. The bo… [+9892 chars]

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