US-Bombe over New Mexico: Wasserstoffbomben-Unglück in our own state territory

1957 The passion of the US Army was a mission to the US Federal State of New Mexico. An air force flight with a washer dust bomb over the sky and the glück in the ungluck.

At the US military base Kirtland, New Mexico, war during the transport flight in May 1957, was the normal version. Then it is like this: the landflug has become a Mark-17 Wasserstoffbombe by the geschlossen Türen des Bombenschachts. At an altitude of 520 meters, one of the world’s strongest bombs lies in its own state territory.

There are some major catastrophes behind the bomb that is three feet long and four feet in the crater. There was radio activity available at the active installation. Lost in the uninvolved region, in the West of New Mexico, but no one. It is not the case that a major problem arises in the construction and function of Wasserstoffbomben.

There is a nuclear merger of the wasserstoff isotope re-beizuführen, which is a classical atomic expansion. First seine Detonation took place in the Wasserstoff at Zündtemperatur. For transportation, the bomb’s plutonium cores are shipped and stored separately. If these Grund don’t aim the bomb.

Lightly smaller, not radioactive Teile explodes with a 42,000 Pfund (approx. 19 Tonnes) bomb blast. The soldiers counter the Unfallort in the Anschluss. Dennoch wurden noch Jahre später smaller radioactive Teile der Bombe in der Umgebung gefunden. These split when inflated, no explosions can occur.

Lange Zeit could say that the message is not aware of the Missgeschick. The first message appeared 29 years ago, in August 1986, that the US military had found the most conspicuous bomb in its own state territory. Experts estimate the impact of the bombs at 10 megatons. Zum Vergleich: the atomic bomb, which exploded in Hiroshima in 1945, had a Sprengkraft of 13 kilos.