The day an American B-52 dropped four nukes on Spain
(WorldNews Spain)

China says Trump is bluffing on WeChat ban – Click to know more On Jan. 17, 1966, a US B-52 Stratofortress bomber and a refueling plane collided during a refueling operation near the southern Spanish village of Palomares, killing seven of 11 crew members. At the time, the US was keeping nuclear-armed warplanes in the air near the Soviet border as the Cold War was in full swing. According to a report in The Associated Press, the midair crash resulted in the release of four deadly hydrogen bombs. None of the bombs exploded, but the plutonium-filled detonators on two went off, scattering 7 pounds (3 kilograms) of highly radioactive plutonium 239 across the landscape. Experts today say that`s...