BOMBER FLYS OVER US WITH NUKES, CON'T

Dennis said...

An atomic bomb also landed in a backyard in NC, plus others.

Yes that did occur in 1958, but as I said, not since the Thule AFB, Greenland, in 1968, incident has bombers been allowed to fly with armed nuclear weapons.
The story about the SC incident is on a website titled "So Long Savannah."

An excerpt from the website:

At precisely 4:19 PM on March 11, 1958, a month after the Savannah incident, a similar bomb, but purportedly without a nuclear payload, was inadvertently dropped from a B-47 when the aircraft experienced electrical problems while flying over Mars Bluff, near Florence, South Carolina (see newsreel). Exploding over ground zero, it injured six people and left an enormous 70 feet wide, 30 feet deep crater. The high explosives used to trigger an atomic bomb are by themselves a significant threat. The detonator (all by itself) destroyed local farmer Walter Gregg’s house and wounded five members of his family while damaging cars, houses, and churches as far away as five miles. Obviously, when Air Force spokesmen say that unarmed bombs aren’t dangerous, they are talking through their hats. Hundreds of bomb fragments were recovered and the area was monitored for radiation. Even now, nearly six decades later, traces of radiation can still be detected with a Geiger counter.