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 ...

The B-52 was born in the shadow of World War II but entered a very different world. First flight: April 15, 1952. By the 1960s there were 742 airframes built across eight variants but the aircraft’s ...