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INTERVIEW: Recollections of an Andalucian who was just a child when the USA accidentally dropped four atom bombs on Spain – in what became known as the Palomares nuclear disaster

INTERVIEW: Recollections of an Andalucian who was just a child when the USA accidentally dropped four atom bombs on Spain – in what became known as the Palomares nuclear disaster

By Norbert Suchanek Two US military aircraft collided by accident in the sky over Andalucia on 17 January 1966 at the height the Cold War. One of these bombers, the B-52, was carrying four nukes. Three of the bombs fell to the ground as flaming debris from the sky fell near the village Palomares northwest of Almeria. The impact caused …

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