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Spain waits for US to finish nuclear bomb clean-up
Palomares bombs: Spain waits for US to finish nuclear clean-up
By Gerry Hadden
PRI's The World
On a sunny morning in 1966 two US Air Force planes collided and dropped four nuclear bombs near the village of Palomares in southern Spain. There was no nuclear blast, but plutonium was scattered over a wide area - and Spain is now asking the US to finish the clean-up.
The US government calls nukes that go astray "Broken Arrows" and on 17 January 1966, Palomares got four of them.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18689132
By Gerry Hadden
PRI's The World
On a sunny morning in 1966 two US Air Force planes collided and dropped four nuclear bombs near the village of Palomares in southern Spain. There was no nuclear blast, but plutonium was scattered over a wide area - and Spain is now asking the US to finish the clean-up.
The US government calls nukes that go astray "Broken Arrows" and on 17 January 1966, Palomares got four of them.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18689132
One hopes the USA is not still flying nuclear bombs all over the place except to store them away in a safe, very secure place.
Unfortunately that's probably not true.
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