[jttpwalsh]

The S.Carolina accident was a few years earlier. From Wikipedia:

# March 11, 1958 – Mars Bluff, South Carolina, USA – Non-nuclear detonation of a nuclear bomb

* A USAF B-47 bomber flying from Hunter Air Force Base in Savannah, Georgia accidentally released an atomic bomb. A home was destroyed and several people injured but the bomb’s plutonium core did not explode.

[norwaypinesavage]

" bomber flying from Hunter Air Force Base in Savannah, Georgia accidentally released an atomic bomb. A home was destroyed and several people injured..."

Wouldn't that nearly ruin your day, having a nuclear bomb fall on your house.