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Bomb on Board - A Nuclear Weapon Goes Missing Over British Columbia • British Columbia Magazine
In 1950 the world had already been entrenched in the Cold War for three years. The perceived threat of a homeland assault loomed overhead like an ominous storm cloud. Tensions were steadily rising between the United States and the USSR, and America prepared herself for nuclear conflict by executing practice missions. This is the story of a Broken Arrow – aka a failed nuclear mission – that went missing over British Columbia, resulting in the first nuclear weapon ever to be lost. Bomb on…
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