<story><title>Remembering the night two atomic bombs fell on North Carolina</title><url>https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2021/01/remembering-night-two-atomic-bombs-dropped-on-north-carolina/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blakesterz</author><text>Interesting story.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s also one missing off the coast of GA:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.npr.org&amp;#x2F;templates&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;story.php?storyId=18587608&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.npr.org&amp;#x2F;templates&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;story.php?storyId=185876...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;On Feb. 5, 1958, a B-47 bomber dropped a 7,000-pound nuclear bomb into the waters off Tybee Island, Ga., after it collided with another Air Force jet. Fifty years later, the bomb -- which has unknown quantities of radioactive material -- has never been found.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yabones</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s also the Damascus incident, where a Titan II missile silo exploded during a fuelling accident and sent a 9 megaton thermonuclear warhead out of the silo and several hundred meters away. They don&amp;#x27;t officially say whether or not the core was inside the weapon, or if it was armed at the time... Either way, it&amp;#x27;s terrifying. Humans don&amp;#x27;t deserve these weapons.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_explosion&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_ex...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Remembering the night two atomic bombs fell on North Carolina</title><url>https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2021/01/remembering-night-two-atomic-bombs-dropped-on-north-carolina/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blakesterz</author><text>Interesting story.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s also one missing off the coast of GA:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.npr.org&amp;#x2F;templates&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;story.php?storyId=18587608&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.npr.org&amp;#x2F;templates&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;story.php?storyId=185876...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;On Feb. 5, 1958, a B-47 bomber dropped a 7,000-pound nuclear bomb into the waters off Tybee Island, Ga., after it collided with another Air Force jet. Fifty years later, the bomb -- which has unknown quantities of radioactive material -- has never been found.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>foobarian</author><text>Another scary event off the coast of Spain: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;1966_Palomares_B-52_crash&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;1966_Palomares_B-52_crash&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Two of the four bombs exploded due to conventional fuses detonating, spreading radioactive material over land.</text></comment>