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On 17 January 1966 America dropped four thermonuclear bombs on Spain. They fell in and around the small sleepy village of Palomares in South-east Spain. The B52 bomber had collided with a airbourne tanker and both planes exploded. Two of the bombs fell in the village and the high explosives went off, scattering Plutonium over a large area. The third bomb landed nearby but didn't explode. The forth bomb was lost in the sea but didn't explode. It was found several weeks later after a massive search. The two bombs that didn't explode are now in a museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and here the now-empty casings are! PS Despite a cleanup operation, to this day there are still traces of Plutonium and other radioactive elements in and around the village. There's much more detail here: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Palomares_B-52_crash" rel="nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Palomares_B-52_crash</a> |
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| Author | Mike McBey |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by M McBey at https://flickr.com/photos/158652122@N02/43233175562. It was reviewed on 15 February 2021 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0. |
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| current | 17:49, 15 February 2021 | | 6,000 × 4,000 (2.66 MB) | Matlin | Transferred from Flickr via #flickr2commons |
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