I’m reading a book about the Cold War right now and found it interesting that this reunion took place yesterday. The book, At the Abyss, An Insider’s History of the Cold War by Thomas C. Reed, discusses this Goldsboro B-52 incident and other events.
Pikeville, N.C. — Eyewitnesses, firefighters and a survivor of a 1961 crash in Wayne County involving a plane equipped with nuclear weapons gathered Tuesday to remember the day."No one knew what was happening outside," said Adam Mattocks, who was among the Air Force crew members in the B-52 plane. At the time, the plane was carrying two nuclear weapons, each one containing more than 200 times the power of the bombs that fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Military officials have since said the weapons came close to detonating during the crash.
via Witnesses, survivor gather to remember B-52 crash :: WRAL.com.