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6 nuclear weapons have been missing for decades. The US military won’t search for them anymore

Key Points and Summary - The U.S. military has suffered dozens of “Broken Arrow” nuclear weapons accidents—events involving lost weapons, accidental releases, or other serious mishaps. -Most were ...

The ship that delivered the atomic bomb was sunk, and nobody came to look for it

On August 6, 1945, the atomic mission against Hiroshima began. The primary strike aircraft was the B-29 Enola Gay, piloted by ...
PBS

How the Press Reported on the Atomic Bomb

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/how-press-reported-atomic-bomb/ The New York Times proudly touted its exclusive coverage of the atomic bomb ...
Forbes

History Explodes At Hoylake: WWII Bomb Found At Royal Liverpool

A massive explosion occurred at Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake last Friday, December 12, not from a golf shot, but from the controlled detonation of World War II ordnance. “We’ve been ...
Albuquerque Journal

Fascinating and multifaceted: 'Nuclear Family' tells the story of nuclear weapons and Los Alamos as told through one family

Ty Bannerman will read from and sign copies of “Nuclear Family: a memoir of the atomic west” at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, as part of the Bad Mouth Reading Series at the q-Staff Theatre, 400 Broadway ...

'I was terrified when I saw a US nuclear bomb crash into my tomatoes'

A Spanish farmer witnessed a US nuclear bomb fall into his tomato field in 1966 after a B-52 bomber collided with a refuelling craft over Palomares - one of 32 documented Broken Arrow incidents with s ...