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Decades Later, Sickness Among Airmen After a Hydrogen Bomb Accident via The New York Times

[…] It was a late winter night in 1966 and a fully loaded B-52 bomber on a Cold War nuclear patrol had collided with a refueling jet high over the Spanish coast, freeing four hydrogen bombs that went tumbling toward … Continue reading

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Palomares bombs: Spain waits for US to finish nuclear clean-up via BBC News

On a sunny morning in 1966 two US Air Force planes collided and dropped four nuclear bombs near the village of Palomares in southern Spain. There was no nuclear blast, but plutonium was scattered over a wide area – and … Continue reading

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