1961 Goldsboro Mk.39 Nuclear Bombs:

I don't want to harp-on about these 'broken arrow' events - but either these Mk. 15 / Mk. 39 thermonuclear bombs were unlucky or maybe VERY LUCKY nukes - either way it makes all the sensational anti-gun danger media stories an absolute sick joke that demonstrates the current lack of decent investigative reporting.

The two Mk.39 four megaton Hydrogen bombs that were released over North Carolina on January 24 1961 - when a B-52 Stratofortress broke-up in the air - were basically modified Mk.15 bombs.

- This Goldsboro Mk.39 Landed "Safely" Near Faro 

With It's Parachute Caught In A Tree.

- The other one hit the ground at a calculated 700 miles per hour deeply penetrating a muddy North Carolina field off  'BIG DADDY'S ROAD' and broke up scattering its contents. - Some of it was recovered and removed - the rest was declared as 'TOO HARD' and was left there and covered over.

Link to:   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash

New Details:    https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb475/

The United States Army Corps of Engineers purchased a 400-foot (120 m) circular easement over the buried components.

I think that what I am saying is .. how strange it is for elected government and media to concern itself about the supposed dangers of civilian small-arms ownership - when there is a far worse problem with the GOVERNMENTS themselves owning and using poorly controlled WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION.

Memorial At EURIKA, NC.

Between 1950 and 1968 at least 700 "significant" accidents and incidents involving 1,250 nuclear weapons were recorded.

Marty K.
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