|
|
March 11th,1956 Aircraft accidentally jettisoned an unarmed nuclear weapon. South Carolina, USA - A B-47 left Hunter Air Force Base, Georgia with three other B-47s en route to an overseas base. The aircraft accidentally jettisoned an unarmed nuclear weapon which impacted in a sparsely populated area 6-1/2 miles east of Florence, South Carolina. The bomb's high explosive material exploded on impact.("The National Times" 15/3/1981) |
|
|
March 11th,1997 Ten workers are exposed to radiation. Tokai, Japan - Ten workers are exposed to radiation when a fire and then an explosion occurs at the Tokaimura power plant (World NucNews, Reuters, March 11, 1997). |
|
|
Our sincere appreciation to the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation(http://www.wagingpeace.org/) who encourages the reproduction of the material from their site. Without this generosity we could not provide you with these articles. Please visit this site and lend your support.
The indicated information for this material was gathered from Nuclearfiles.org(http://www.nuclearfiles.org/index.html) web site. Visit this site and you will find a tremendous amount of interesting information. You may contact them at http://www.nuclearfiles.org/sucontactus/contact.html |