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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aru21atnet" data-source="post: 15625411" data-attributes="member: 332289">How US bomber nearly nuked North Carolina in 1961 In a new book Command and Control, journalist Eric Schlosser chronicles America's terrifying nuclear mishaps and near misses.     He recounts how in one  incident in 1961, days after President John F Kennedy's inauguration,  two hydrogen bombs were accidentally dropped on Goldsboro, North  Carolina, as a B-52 bomber went into a tailspin.Only the failure of a single low-voltage switch prevented disaster, Schlosser explains to the BBC's Katty Kay."The  bomb assumed it was being deliberately released over an enemy target -  and went through all its arming mechanisms save one, and very nearly  detonated over North Carolina," said Schlosser. "And Robert  McNamara had just become secretary of defence and he was terrified by  this news. We nearly had a hydrogen bomb detonate a few days after JFK's  inauguration that would have changed literally the course of history."Source :- <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24183541" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24183541</a></blockquote>

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