Dropping Nuclear Bombs on Spain the Palomares Accident of 1966 and the U.S. Airborne Alert
On January 17, 1966, a U.S. B-52 bomber collided with a KC-135 tanker plane while refueling, causing both planes and four unarmed hydrogen bombs to fall near the Spanish village of Palomares. The conventional explosives in two of the bombs detonated causing radioactive plutonium to be spread over th...
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| Online Access: | http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_migr_etd-2502 |