Comments by "steve shoemaker" (@steveshoemaker6347) on "B-36 Bomber Nuclear Accident, Albuquerque, 1957" video.

  1. l must say l am all to familiar with this deal here......Thanks Mr History Guy for reminding to forget.......Such stuff as this..... By: Timothy J. Jorgensen, Georgetown University via AP/The Conversation   January 23, 2018 Lt. D.J. Dahlen, left, radiation specialist, and Maj. Gen. Richard O. Hunziker of the Strategic Air Command at Omaha, get a Geiger counter ready for inspection, Jan. 26, 1968, of the area where a B-52 bomber crashed with four H-bombs near Thule Air Force Base, Greenland. At right is Dr. J. Koch of the Danish Atomic Research Station. Danish scientist at center in unidentified. (AP Photo) Fifty years ago, on Jan. 21, 1968, the Cold War grew significantly colder. It was on this day that an American B-52G Stratofortress bomber, carrying four nuclear bombs, crashed onto the sea ice of Wolstenholme Fjord in the northwest corner of Greenland, one of the coldest places on Earth. Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, and the Danes were not pleased. The bomber – call sign HOBO 28 – had crashed due to human error. One of the crew members had stuffed some seat cushions in front of a heating vent, and they subsequently caught fire. The smoke quickly became so thick that the crew needed to eject. Six of the 7 crew members parachuted out safely before the plane crashed onto the frozen fjord 7 miles west of Thule Air Base – America’s most northern military base, 700 miles north of the Arctic Circle. There was also one that crashed in Canada that was close to terrible......Thanks...!
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