US nearly detonated atomic bomb over North Carolina – secret document

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A secret document, published in declassified form for the first time by the Guardian today, reveals that the US Air Force came dramatically close to detonating an atom bomb over North Carolina that would have been 260 times more powerful than the device that devastated Hiroshima.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/20/usaf-atomic-bomb-north-carolina-1961


Wow...can you imagine if this had gone off on the east coast?  Only a micro switch saved the lives of millions.