On 17 January 1966 a Chrome Dome B-52 collided with a tanker over Palomares, Spain, releasing four B28 thermonuclear weapons. Public framing stressed safe/no nuclear yield; DNA, FRUS, and a FOIA'd State history document plutonium scatter ashore, months of Mediterranean recovery, and Franco's permanent ban on nuclear overflights.
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