What is Palomares incidents hydrogen bomb?

The Palomares hydrogen bomb incident is a military accident that occurred on January 17, 1966. The United States bombers collided with a tanker during refilling about 6 miles (10 km) above the Mediterranean, right off the coast of Spain. This lit a fuel compartment of the tanker and caused it to explode and killed all four crew members on board. The bomber also broke up and killed three crew members. The crew members survived and fell on safety. The explosion was so great that he witnessed a crew of another bomber, far away. Conventional explosives in two bombs exploded and contaminated two square kilometers of Spanish soil with radioactive plutonium. Another bomb hit the ground without the incident and the last bomb fell into the Mediterranean Moeng and 2 1/2 months of long search. Obviously, the United States Army did not want the hydrogen bomb to fall into the wrong hands.

inThe Palomares Cident Cident has obviously become international stir soon after it happened, and the United States government worked to clean the area of ​​contaminated soil, dug 1,750 tons of land and destroyed it in the Savannah River in South Carolina. To show local Spaniards and international communities that the area was without contamination, the Spanish Minister of Tourism Manuel Fraga and the US Ambassador Angier Biddle Duke of the Duke on the beach outside Palomares, in full view of the international media.

But the ending of the Palomares incident hydrogen bomb required finding the last hydrogen bomb, which was not so easy. Using the initial data of Francisco Simó Orts, a local fisherman who saw the bomb enter the water, a mathematician technique called Bayesian search was used to search for a bomb on the seabed. The famous oceanographic ship deep sea was used to search the area. After 2 1/2 months of continuous search, the bomb was loaded and broughtto the surface. Photographs of military officials before the renewed bomb were subsequently released, the first time the nuclear weapon was seen in a full view of the public.

The Palomares hydrogen bomb incident is now falling in history as one of the most important anomalous incidents concerning nuclear weapons. Another is the incident of Vela when the nuclear explosion of unknown origin of the source near the island of South Atlantic.