A military plane was carrying the weapons when it exploded over a rural area, killing three people and sending the bombs ...

Ken Jones, a retired Air Force Lt. Colonel, shared what it was like flying with nuclear bombs aboard his plane during the Cold War. He was one of the last military draftees.

A plane crash released two nuclear bombs over North Carolina in 1961 ... remembered as “one of the closest near-disasters” of the Cold War. Billy Reeves told National Geographic he was ...

During World War II, few working on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb had a good understanding of the effect of nuclear radiation. Before 1963, it was common to conduct ...

Ken Jones, a retired Air Force Lt. Colonel, shares what it was like flying with nuclear bombs aboard his plane during the ...

The B61 bomb’s reported yield will be adjustable to between 0.3 and 50 kilotons. A kiloton is the equivalent of 1,000 tons of TNT. Although not possessing the long-distance standoff capacity of either ...