Known now as the Goldsboro incident, in the middle of the night on the 23rd of January 1961, a B-52 Stratofortress was flying over the skies of the Atlantic. The plane developed a fuel leak and was directed to fly towards Goldsboro, North Carolina to land at nearby Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. However, as they had just crossed over to land from sea, the pilots lost control of the plane and had to bail out of the craft. Only 5 crewmembers successfully parachuted out, the rest died in the crash.

This wasn't an ordinary flight for the B-52 and the crew though, nor would it be an ordinary crash. Onboard the plane were 2 3.8 megaton thermonuclear bombs. After the crew lost control of the plane and it began falling to the earth, it broke up and the two bombs separated from the attachments in their bays. They fell to the ground over North Carolina.

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