At 3:39 p.m. on January 21, 1968, the aircraft slammed into the ice seven miles west of the base. The impact carved a 160-foot gash across the frozen bay. All four thermonuclear weapons detonated ...
In 1968, a US B-52 bomber carrying four nuclear weapons crashed near Thule in Greenland after an onboard fire. The impact caused radioactive contamination and killed a crew member. The accident ...