We almost nuked Albuquerque by accident π³οΈ . . . May 27, 1957. A US B-36 dropped a 42,000-pound Mark 17 hydrogen bomb β 10 megatons, 700 times Hiroshima β over New Mexico. The conventional charges blew a 25-foot crater a mile from Kirtland Air Force Base. Only the unarmed fissile core kept it from vaporizing the city.
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