Almost Nucked America: The Day the United States Almost Destroyed Itself
During the Cold War, the biggest threat was a nuclear strike by the Soviet Union. But, for a brief moment during those tense years, the United States almost nuked itself. When two Mark 39 hydrogen bombs were accidently dropped over Goldsboro, North Carolina, on January 23, 1961, the United States narrowly avoided a cataclysmic calamity. … Read more