indago
VIP Member
- Oct 27, 2007
- 1,114
- 109
Journalist Dave Philipps wrote for The New York Times 19 June 2016:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Alarms sounded on United States Air Force bases in Spain and officers began packing all the low-ranking troops they could grab onto buses for a secret mission. ...It was a late winter night in 1966 and a fully loaded B-52 bomber on a Cold War nuclear patrol had collided with a refueling jet high over the Spanish coast, freeing four hydrogen bombs that went tumbling toward a farming village called Palomares... ...It was one of the biggest nuclear accidents in history, and the United States wanted it cleaned up quickly and quietly. ...“There was no talk about radiation or plutonium or anything else,” said Frank B. Thompson, a then 22-year-old trombone player who spent days searching contaminated fields without protective equipment or even a change of clothes. “They told us it was safe, and we were dumb enough, I guess, to believe them.”
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
article/video
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Alarms sounded on United States Air Force bases in Spain and officers began packing all the low-ranking troops they could grab onto buses for a secret mission. ...It was a late winter night in 1966 and a fully loaded B-52 bomber on a Cold War nuclear patrol had collided with a refueling jet high over the Spanish coast, freeing four hydrogen bombs that went tumbling toward a farming village called Palomares... ...It was one of the biggest nuclear accidents in history, and the United States wanted it cleaned up quickly and quietly. ...“There was no talk about radiation or plutonium or anything else,” said Frank B. Thompson, a then 22-year-old trombone player who spent days searching contaminated fields without protective equipment or even a change of clothes. “They told us it was safe, and we were dumb enough, I guess, to believe them.”
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
article/video