I don't want to make you paranoid or anything, but all of these incidents really happened...
1. In July 1956, a B-47 aircraft plowed into a storage shed igloo 20 miles outside of Cambridge, England. The plane's jet fuel burst into flames almost immediately, but for some reason didn't ignite the contents of the igloo. A lucky thing, too - it contained three Mark 6 nuclear bombs.
2. In 1958, a B-47E accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb into a South Carolina family's vegetable garden. The bomb didn't explode, but the impact, damaged five houses and a church. Air Force officials "apologized."
3. In 1961, a B-52 dropped two 24-megaton bombs on a North Carolina farm. According to one physicist: "only a single switch prevented the bombs from detonating."
4. In 1966, another B-52 carrying four 22-megaton bombs crashed in Palomares, Spain - with one of the bombs splashing into the Mediterranean Sea. It took the U.S. 6th fleet - using 33 ships and 3,000 men - several weeks to find the missing bomb.
5. In 1980, a repairman working on a Titan II missile in Arkansas dropped a wrench - which bounced off the floor, punctured the missile, and set off an explosion that blew the top off the silo and threw the warhead 600 feet into the air.
6.On June 3, 1980 the Strategic Air Command computers in Omaha, Nebraska detected a Soviet submarine missile attack in progress. Within minutes, more than 100 B-52's were in the air, but the SAC soon called off the counterattack - the computers had made a mistake. The culprit: a 46¢ computer chip. Three days later the same mistake happened again.
BOOM...
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