A U.S. Bomber Crashed on Greenland with 4 Nukes aboard in 1968

As I've mentioned before, we dropped nukes all over the place until we changed our policy about 1970, after dropping four nukes on Franco's Spain. We did a lot of crazy things during the Cold War. These stories seem eternally popular on HN.

Or that time a U.S. Bomber crashed on U.S. soil (North Carolina) with 2 nukes on board during a training mission; one of which was armed!<p>Link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash</a>

And Bayes Rule was used to find one of the bombs:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1966_Palomares_B-52_crash#Weapons_recovery" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1966_Palomares_B-52_crash#Weap...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bayesian_search_theory" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bayesian_search_theory</a>