On a chilly evening in 1961, a B-52 crashed in rural eastern North Carolina near the town of Goldsboro. Any plane crash is bad, but this one was particularly dangerous because onboard that bomber were two nuclear weapons. The event was perhaps the closest the United States has ever come to accidentally detonating a nuclear bomb鈥攁nd kicking off a nuclear war.
Featuring:
- Jay Price, Military and Veterans Affairs reporter at 吉彩网网站 and The American Homefront Project
- Stephen Schwartz, independent nuclear weapons expert and author of 鈥淎tomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940鈥�
Links:
- Read Jay's article from 2018 marking the 50th anniversary of the Goldsboro nuclear accident.
- View left behind by the nuclear accident in Florence, South Carolina.
