Atomic Bomb Nearly Exploded over North Carolina in 1961

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Atomic Bomb Nearly Exploded over North Carolina in 1961

Sun, 2013-09-22 00:29 — Gina Angiola

Published September 21, 2013, FoxNews.com

The U.S. Air Force nearly detonated an atomic bomb over North Carolina in 1961 that would have been 260 times more powerful than the device that destroyed Hiroshima, according to a declassified report published Friday in The Guardian.

The 1969 document, obtained by investigative journalist Eric Schlosser under the Freedom of Information Act, details the Jan. 23, 1961, B-52 crash near Goldsboro, North Carolina, that saw two Mark 39 hydrogen bombs break up in mid-air.

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