Friday, April 27, 2012

The Day An Atomic Bomb Dropped On Our House

Shocking: In 1958, the U.S Air Force accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb on a little girls' playhouse in South Carolina. This aerial photograph taken the day after the bomb dropped showed the damage to the Gregg family home and the impact point

Boy, They Got Lucky: The Remarkable Story Of How The U.S. Air Force Accidentally Dropped A Nuclear Weapon Onto A Little Girls' Playhouse In 1958… And No One Was Killed -- Daily Mail

* Three young girls had moved 200 yards from playhouse just minutes before bomb landed

Their awesome power had been harnessed by the Americans ten years earlier to help bring about an end to the Second World War.

But a US Air Force crew nearly wrought similar destruction on its own people after accidentally dropping a nuclear bomb on south Carolina at the height of the Cold War.

But thanks to remarkable good fortune no one was killed in the incident on March 11, 1958.

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My Comment:
Talk about close calls.

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