Time when U.S accidentally dropped 14 nukes

Operation Chrome Dome was a United States Air Force Cold War-era mission from 1961 to 1968 in which B-52 strategic bomber aircraft armed with thermonuclear weapons remained on continuous airborne alert, flying routes that put them in positions to attack targets in the Soviet Union if they were ordered to do so. The exact routes varied by year, but in general there were routes that went to positions over the Canadian Arctic, Alaska, Greenland, and the Mediterranean Sea. The program and its antecedents were involved in the following nuclear-weapons accidents: the 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash, the 1961 Yuba City B-52 crash, the 1964 Savage Mountain B-52 crash, the 1966 Palomares B-52 crash, the 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash. The Thule accident signaled the end of the program on January 22, 1968.
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