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The Cold War, lasting from the end of the Second World War in 1945 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, was one of the most dangerous periods in human history. For nearly five decades, the communist East and capitalist West eyed each other suspiciously across the Iron Curtain, precariously balanced on the brink of nuclear Armageddon. Numerous intercontinental ballistic missiles sat ready in their silos, nuke equipped submarines prowled the oceans, while nuclear-armed strategic bombers patrolled the skies, all ready at a moment’s notice to unleash their apocalyptic payloads. With so much nuclear ordnance flying about, accidents could – and did – happen. Many of these near-misses have already been covered in previous videos such as That Time the Moon Nearly Started World War 3 (and Other Silly Cold War Shenanigans), Fire, Ice, and Plutonium, That Time the U.S. Air Force Lost a Nuke in the Mediterranean, and When Dropping a Wrench Almost Caused Armageddon; as well as Did a Scientific Experiment Really Nearly Start WWII in 1995? But none of these close calls were as horrifyingly close as a 1961 accident that nearly turned the entire U.S. state of North Carolina into a radioactive wasteland and the massive loss of life that would have come with that – and was only prevented from doing so by a single, shockingly crude electrical component. This is the disturbing story of the 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash.

Author: Gilles Messier
Editor: Daven Hiskey
Host: Daven Hiskey
Producer: Daven Hiskey

0:00 Intro
3:30 Expanding SAC and the First Broken Arrows
10:40 The Stratojet: The First Jet Powered Intercontinental Bomber
13:38 The Missing Stratojet and More Close Calls
17:18 Losing a Nuke off the Coast of Georgia
21:35 Cue Yakity Sax- The Nuke Dropped Near a Family Home
28:58 The World Says WTF United States?!?
30:30 A Big Ugly Fat F**k and the Soviets Change the Game
33:48 Dropping 3 Nukes, 2 Armed, on North Carolina
40:34 Whoopsa-Freaking-Doodle- 32 Seconds from Detonation
46:17 The Only Winning Move