Report: US came close nuclear disaster in 1961

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A newly published book says that a U.S. hydrogen bomb nearly detonated on the nation's east coast, with a single switch averting a blast which would have been 260 times more powerful than the device that flattened Hiroshima.
 
Two hydrogen bombs were accidentally dropped over Goldsboro, North Carolina in January 1961 after a B-52 bomber broke up in flight.
 
The Guardian newspaper said Saturday that a recently declassified document, reported in a new book by Eric Schlosser, shows how close the U.S. came to a major catastrophe.
 
The document says just "one simple, low-voltage switch"  which could easily have been shorted  prevented "bad news in spades."
 
The Guardian says Schlosser discovered the document through the Freedom of Information Act.


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