I lived alongside the runway at Carswell for a while in 1956; when they took-off the ground shook.
well, the real nuke is lying on the floor of the Atlantic just off of Tybee Island. no one seems today to know where it is. look it up....
I lived near there when the B-52’s were stationed there.
When they took off, a bomb could have detonated 10 feet from you and you would not have heard it.
by the way, I thought the B-36 had 6 propeller, and 4 jet engines. The ones in the photo have no jet engines.
We lived directly across the lake from the end of the runway at Carswell. When the B-36s took off and passed over us, the vibration would shake plates out of the kitchen cabinets.