![]() Government was able to clean most of it up and ship it to the state that drew the short straw-South Carolina!2 One of its four unarmed bombs fell into the Mediterranean Sea, while the other three rained mainly on a plain in Spain, two of which spilled plutonium over a nice farming village. (The test was called Project 57, and THE BITTER PAST does a “what if” of its own with it.) Nine years later in 1966, a B-52 bomber collided with a refueling plane. The photo above is of five Air Force officers who in 1957 volunteered to stand directly under a nuclear bomb detonation to prove, once and for all, that men are always dumber than women.1Īlso in 1957, we knew there was a chance that a nuclear bomber might one day have an accident, so we decided to conduct a test to see what would happen if the plutonium from a warhead cracked open and leaked all over someone’s living room. As we anxiously await publication day on July 18, I thought it might be fun to take a look back at our atomic history and showcase just how crazy things were. ![]() If you’ve been following my journey the last couple of years, you know that my novel, THE BITTER PAST, revolves around that whacky time in our history when we were figuring out just how fast we could destroy the world. The Funny, Scary, and Incredibly Lucky Human Race ![]()
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