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On the morning of January 17, 1966, an American B-52 bomber on a secret mission over Cold War-era Europe collided mid-air with a refuelling tanker. The crash killed seven airmen aboard the tanker. However, US officials were alarmed by an even greater threat: the bomber’s payload—four B28 hydrogen bombs—had broken loose during the collision and plummeted toward the small Mediterranean beach town of Palomares…
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A lesson buried in the Mediterranean: How a mid-air collision dropped four US nuclear bombs on Spain in 1966
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On the morning of January 17, 1966, an American B-52 bomber on a secret mission over Cold War-era Europe collided mid-air with a refuelling tanker. The crash killed seven airmen aboard the tanker. However, US officials were alarmed by an even greater threat: the bomber’s payload—four B28 hydrogen bombs—had broken loose during the collision and
