Some folks who knew more than you and I seemed to think there was potential for a nuclear disaster. > In 2011, Lt. Jack Revelle, the bomb disposal expert respo

Some folks who knew more than you and I seemed to think there was potential for a nuclear disaster. > In 2011, Lt. Jack Revelle, the bomb disposal expert responsible for disarming the device, claimed "we came damn close" to a nuclear detonation that would have completely changed much of eastern North Carolina > In a now-declassified 1969 report, entitled "Goldsboro Revisited", written by Parker F. Jones, a supervisor of nuclear safety at Sandia National Laboratories, Jones said that "one simple, dynamo-technology, low voltage switch stood between the United States and a major catastrophe", and concluded that "The MK 39 Mod 2 bomb did not possess adequate safety for the airborne alert role in the B-52".