Lost Nuke: The Last Flight of Bomber 075 by Dirk Septer
By Dirk Septer
Just sooner than hour of darkness on February thirteen, 1950, 3 engines of a US Air strength B-36 intercontinental bomber stuck fireplace over Canada's northwest coast. The team jumped, and the airplane ditched someplace within the Pacific Ocean. the truth that the large plane were sporting a Mark IV nuclear bomb was once stored conscientiously hidden. 3 years later, the damage of the bomber used to be chanced on accidentally in a distant situation within the coastal mountains of British Columbia, 3 hours' flying time within the other way of the place it used to be imagined to have crashed. How did it get there? Did anyone stay on board and fly it there?
Only after years of silence did the us ultimately admit to wasting a nuclear bomb; the incident was once the 1st ever "Broken Arrow," as injuries regarding nuclear guns have turn out to be recognized. yet was once the bomb dropped and exploded over the interior Passage or used to be it blown up on the aircraft's resting position within the mountains?
This chilly War-era story borders on delusion as Dirk Septer follows the final flight of Bomber 075 and makes an attempt to resolve the genuine tale in the back of greater than 50 years of secrecy, misdirection and misinformation.
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