Science Gone Wrong

The Fix That Saved Three Lives

The Lost Astronaut Mice

The Shuttle That Outflew Its Hangar

The Missing Hyphen

The Rushed Airship

The 83-Day Patient

The President in the Reactor

The Demon Core's First Victim

The Gimli Glider

Dead Stick At Mach Four

The Wrong Tape

The Lost Tybee Bomb

The Filter Nobody Replaced

The Demon Core's Second Victim

The Sky Was Falling

The Reactor That Leaked for a Decade

The Dropped Socket

The Deepest Grave

One Switch From Disaster

The Lost Bomb of British Columbia

The Buried Reactor

The Lucky Dragon

The Bomb in Puget Sound

The Lost Scorpion

The Lost Bomb Under Greenland

The Bomb in the Pacific

The Damascus Incident

The Bomb in the Backyard

The Hiroshima of K-19

The Albuquerque Drop

The Loudest Sound on Earth

The Lake That Exhaled

One Switch From Disaster

The Deliberate Crash

The Falling Reactor

The Lost Bomb of Palomares

The Man Who Saved The World

The Bomb That Was Too Big

In 1980, NASA accidentally launched a manhole cover into space at 125,000 mph during an underground nuclear test, making it potentially the fastest human-made object ever created.

The 1904 Olympic Marathon included a runner who hitchhiked half the race, another who was chased by wild dogs, and one who nearly died from rat poison

In 1958, the US Army accidentally irradiated an entire town in Tennessee while testing nuclear weapons effects on vegetables

In 1962, a failed NASA rocket launch accidentally created the largest man-made light show visible from 1,000 miles away

Scientists accidentally created glow-in-the-dark cats by inserting jellyfish genes into cat DNA to study genetic diseases, and the cats passed the trait to their kittens.

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster created a forest where trees can't decompose, so 30 years of dead wood just piles up without rotting.

In 1962, NASA accidentally created a rainbow that could be seen from 1,000 miles away when their rocket exploded and released metallic particles into the atmosphere.