A B-52 tore apart over North Carolina in January 1961 and dropped two hydrogen bombs, and Sandia’s own accident reports, released in 2021, record that one bomb powered itself up, ran its timer out and crushed its nose on impact, and that an arm-safe switch left on safe was the reason it did not detonate
A B-52G on a Strategic Air Command airborne alert mission was refuelling over the Atlantic when the tanker…