According to a report published in The Guardian, the U.S. Air Force nearly caused a wide-scale disaster in 1961 when they almost detonated an atomic bomb, 260 times more powerful than the one that striked Hiroshima. Just imagine how much destruction this would have caused, how many lives would've gone, a major catastrophe it would've been.
The document under light mentioned the breakup of two Mark 39 hydrogen bombs being carried on a B-52 on January 23,1961 mid-air over North Carolina.
Investigative journalist Eric Schlosser who obtained the document, said "The US government has consistently tried to withhold information from the American people in order to prevent questions being asked about our nuclear weapons policy. We were told there was no possibility of these weapons accidentally detonating, yet here's one that very nearly did."
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