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Render objects Advanced display options [+] Debug log: Click anywhere to load visualization Loading... Honey, there's a nuclear bomb in the yard. © Provided by AFP There are 16,300 atomic weapons in the hands of nine countries, and a new book by US author Eric Schlosser examines how close the world came to an accidental nuclear detonation during the Cold War When a nuclear bomb landed in the Gregg yard in South Carolina in 1958, it left a big crater, killed a few chickens, caused the family minor injuries and wrecked their Chevrolet. Luckily, the device that had fallen out of a B-47 bomber after Captain Bruce Kulka accidentally grabbed a lever opening the bomb bay -- almost falling out himself -- was not fully armed with a fissile core.
But other US aircraft routinely flew carrying fully-primed nuclear weapons, and the incident, as highlighted in this week's international conference on nuclear weapons in Vienna, was far from isolated. In another case in 1961, a B-52 bomber broke up in the air and went into a spin. And in 1968, a B-52 bomber carrying four hydrogen bombs crashed near the Thule air base in Greenland. - Cyber danger -
US should develop a new generation of hydrogen bombs, many experts say. © Getty Images Shock wave capturing an atomic explosion at a test site in the Nevada desert in 1957. WASHINGTON — Two decades after the U.S. began to scale back its nuclear forces after the Cold War, a number of military strategists, scientists and congressional leaders are calling for a new generation of hydrogen bombs. Warheads in the nation's stockpile are an average of 27 years old, raising serious concerns about their reliability, they say.
Provocative nuclear threats by Russian President Vladimir Putin have added to the pressure to not only design new weapons, but also to conduct underground tests for the first time since 1992. "We should get rid of our existing warheads and develop a new warhead that we would test to detonation," said John Hamre, deputy secretary of Defense in the Clinton administration and now president of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The incoming Republican-controlled Congress could be more open to exploring new weapons. John S. Norton A. Nuking North Carolina? 21 September 2013Last updated at 02:34 ET Eric Schlosser: 'We nearly had a hydrogen bomb detonate a few days after JFK's inauguration' A four-megaton nuclear bomb was one switch away from exploding over the US in 1961, a newly declassified US document confirms.
Two bombs were on board a B-52 plane that went into an uncontrolled spin over North Carolina - both bombs fell and one began the detonation process. The document was first published in the UK's Guardian newspaper. The US government has acknowledged the accident before, but never made public how close the bomb came to detonating. The document was obtained by journalist Eric Schlosser under the Freedom of Information Act. Schlosser told the BBC such an explosion would have "changed literally the course of history".
The plane was on a routine flight when it began to break up over North Carolina on 23 January 1961. As it was breaking apart, a control inside the cockpit released the two Mark 39 hydrogen bombs over Goldsboro. Nuclear weapons: Who has what? Atom Bomb photos, movies, & videos.