A-Bombing North Carolina

Wonder how this would have played out in our nation's history?

Not one, but two A-bombs with multiples of power of those dropped on Japan dropped in 1961:

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"A newly declassified report discusses a US bomber that broke in half while flying over the state in January of that year, causing the two nuclear bombs it was carrying to plummet to the ground near Goldsboro—and reveals that those bombs came much closer to detonation than was previously known. A parachute opened for one of the bombs, which landed intact; the safing pins that conducted power from a generator had been pulled, preventing a blast. Still, it completed five of the six steps to detonation, Fox News reports. Had two cockpit wires touched as the plane disintegrated, it could have exploded. As for the second bomb, it landed in a freefall, which caused the switch to flip to the "armed" position"


http://www.newser.com/story/188338/yup-we-nearly-blew-up-north-carolina.html