1958 Mars Bluff B-47 nuclear weapon loss incident

Quand

11 mars 1958

Type

Catastrophe aérienne

Coordonnées

34.20° N, 79.66° W

Deaths

0

Accidental release of a nuclear weapon in South Carolina, United States

The 1958 Mars Bluff B-47 nuclear weapon loss incident was the inadvertent release of a nuclear weapon from a United States Air Force B-47 bomber over Mars Bluff, South Carolina. The bomb, which did not have its fissile nuclear core installed at the time of the accident, impacted with the ground, and its conventional high explosives detonated.

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