(Agence France-Presse) When a nuclear bomb landed in the Gregg yard in South Carolina in 1958, it left a big crater, killed a few chickens, caused the family minor injuries and wrecked their Chevrolet.
Luckily, the device that had fallen out of a B-47 bomber after Captain Bruce Kulka accidentally grabbed a lever opening the bomb bay — almost falling out himself — was not fully armed with a fissile core.
But other US aircraft routinely flew carrying fully-primed nuclear weapons, and the incident, as highlighted in this week’s international conference on nuclear weapons in Vienna, was far from isolated.
