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Well, neither were fully armed armed - fortunately! There were multiple arming points / switches. One bomb was ‘Safe’, and the other ‘Armed’ (but with an inter
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Well, neither were fully armed armed - fortunately!
There were multiple arming points / switches. One bomb was ‘Safe’, and the other ‘Armed’ (but with an intermediate high voltage switch ‘off’). Bits of the latter one are still buried 150ft down, including nuclear material:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash