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N.C. Nearly Nuked in 1961

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♦ In 1961 after a B-52 broke in half in the skies over N.C. and two nuclear bombs fell on Goldsboro, N.C.   Through a strange twist of fate neither bomb detonated.  The one fully armed nuclear bomb had many times the power of the bomb that crushed Hiroshima.  It effects would’ve devastated a large portion of North Carolina.  The story just came to light through a freedom of information inquiry and was carried last evening on CNN and BBC News.  Picture the power of a 260 megaton nuclear bomb radiating out in all directions.  If you were living in Goldsboro, N.C. your molecules would’ve been incinerated in a flash of white light.  Here is the account on Youtube:



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