March 11, 1958: In Mars Bluff, South Carolina, an American B-47 Stratojet accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb on a family home from 15,000 feet. Fortunately the bomb did not have its nuclear core for safety during the training mission, but it did explode its conventional… pic.twitter.com/o732ofaMwm

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