The Palomares Incident is a good story too. All 4 lost bombs were recovered. Three on land had exploded (in a non-nuclear manner) and scattered so much radioact

The Palomares Incident is a good story too. All 4 lost bombs were recovered. Three on land had exploded (in a non-nuclear manner) and scattered so much radioactive contamination that the US government had to scrape off 6000 barrels worth of Spanish topsoil and ship it back to the states. The fourth bomb fell in the ocean and was recovered through Bayesian analysis with the assistance of an observant Spanish fisherman. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Palomares_B-52_crash https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Palomares_B-52_crash (I used to know one of the scientists who helped in this recovery. He wrote a book about it.)