On This Date in History: January 23, 1961

"A B-52 bomber carrying two 24 megaton bombs crashes at Goldsboro, North Carolina. On one of the bombs, five of six interlocking safety devices fail, and a single switch prevents detonation. The explosion would have been 1,800 times more powerful than the bomb that was exploded at Hiroshima." The USAF Strategic Air Command's motto is "Peace is Our Profession" and yet they came closer to nuking America than the Soviet Union ever did. Go figure?