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Broken Arrow" is the name given to nuclear weapon accidents, whether they be by accidental launching, firing, detonating .

Broken Arrow" is the name given to nuclear weapon accidents, whether they be by accidental launching, firing, detonating, theft or loss of the weapon. admits to having 32 broken arrows worldwide, with six nuclear weapons having been lost and never recovered. Related: the terrifying power of nuclear weaponry. In the simplest terms, the way a nuclear weapon works is that a chemical high explosive compresses nuclear material until a critical mass is reached and fission is achieved.

Norman Leach (Broken Arrow) Americas First Lost Nuclear Weapon. 9 people found this helpful. I did not know what to expect when I started this book. It reads a lot like fiction. It is a remarkable look into history and makes you wonder what other incidents have happened that we do not or will not know about!

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Published: 1 April 2009. by Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute. in Canadian Aeronautics and Space Journal. Canadian Aeronautics and Space Journal, Volume 55; doi:10.

Broken Arrow : America's First Lost Nuclear Weapon. On the eve of Valentine's Day, 1950, an American Strategic Air Command B-36 bomber-loaded with an atomic bomb-flew into the frozen night on a simulated bombing run from Alaska to San Francisco. The engines suddenly failed on this notoriously unreliable aircraft and the crew, before parachuting into the rugged terrain of northern British Columbia, set the autopilot to take the aircraft far out to sea.

A True Story of the Cold War, A Doomed Bomber and America's First Lost Nuclear Weapon. by Norman Leach, Norman Leach. Published March 15, 2008 by Red Deer Press.

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Five years after using the first atomic weapons to force the surrender of Japan in World War II, the United States military was preparing for a new era of nuclear warfare with its Cold War adversary, the Soviet Union. The more conventional explanation of the fate of America’s first broken arrow was likely the truth-the only remains of the detonated Mark IV rested deep on the ocean floor. The crash of Flight 2075 may have been the first broken arrow, but it wasn’t the last.

Leach, Norman S. Broken Arrow: America’s First Lost Nuclear Weapon. Calgary, Ontario: Red Deer Press, 2008. Ronald Reagan and His Quest to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. New York: Random House, 2005. Leighton, Richard M. History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Volume III: Strategy, Money, and the New Look, 1953–1956. Historical Office, Office of the Secretary of Defense, 2001.