Pure luck stops two nuclear bombs destroying US city

Two concurrent nuclear explosions over a US town were narrowly averted on January 24, 1961.
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The day a US nuclear bomber crashed in Greenland and shook the Cold War

In 1968, a US B-52 bomber carrying four nuclear weapons crashed near Thule in Greenland after an onboard fire. The impact caused radioactive contamination and killed a crew member. The accident ...

Israel begins demolition of United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees’ Jerusalem headquarters

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir hailed the move as a “historic day, a holiday, a very important day for ...
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The Burden of the Bomb

Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic AgeBy Alex Wellerstein / William MorrowReviewed by: John A. LauderThe Reviewer: John A. Lauder is a Senior Fellow at the Wisconsin Project on ...