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The Day We Lost the H-Bomb Cold War, Hot Nukes, and the Worst Nuclear Weapons Accident in History Random House, 2009 In The Day We Lost the H-Bomb, science writer Barbara Moran marshals a wealth of new information and recently declassified material to give the definitive account of the Cold War's biggest nuclear weapons disaster: the U.S. Air Force's loss of four hydrogen bombs over the coast of Spain. On January 17, 1966, a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber exploded over the sleepy Spanish farming village of Palomares during a routine airborne refueling. The explosion killed seven airmen and scattered the bomber's payload—four unarmed thermonuclear bombs—across miles of coastline.

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