“Days after the inauguration of John F. Kennedy in 1961, the American military came within a ‘hair’s breadth’ of detonating a nuclear explosion over North Carolina.  A pair of Mark 29 hydrogen bombs — each of which was 250 times more powerful than the bomb that leveled Hiroshima — were accidentally deployed when the B-52 hauling them went into an uncontrolled spin.  One of them fell to the ground unarmed, but the failsafe mechanisms in the other underwent a cascade of failure.  Had the bomb exploded, the lethal fallout would have spread across the Eastern Seaboard, blanketing New York and Washington D.C.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/15/united-states-was-once-a-hairs-breadth-from-detonating-nuclear-bomb-over-north-carolina/

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