Military Nuclear Incidents - Soviet Submarine K-278 Komsomolets, List of Military Nuclear Accidents, 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 Crash (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: Soviet submarine K-278 Komsomolets, List of military nuclear accidents, 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash, 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident, Soviet submarine K-129, Vela Incident, 1966 Palomares B-52 crash, United States military nuclear incident terminology, 1958 Tybee Island B-47 crash, 1964 Savage Mountain B-52 crash, Kyshtym disaster, 1950 British Columbia B-36 crash, Norwegian rocket incident, Soviet submarine K-431, List of sunken nuclear submarines, 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash, 1961 Yuba City B-52 crash, Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, 1956 B-47 disappearance, Beryl incident. Excerpt: This article lists notable military accidents involving nuclear material. Civilian accidents are listed at List of civilian nuclear accidents. For a general discussion of both civilian and military accidents, see nuclear and radiation accidents. In listing military nuclear accidents, the following criteria have been adopted: A sketch of Louis Slotin's criticality accident used to determine exposure of those in the room at the time. In the above incidents, both Daghlian (August 21, 1945 case) and Slotin (May 21, 1946 case), were working with the same bomb core which became known as the "demon core." The Castle Bravo fallout pattern. October 8-12, 1957 - Sellafield, Cumbria, UK - Reactor core fire SL-1 reactor being removed from the National Reactor Testing Station. Baneberry's radioactive plume rises from a shock fissure. Contaminants were carried in three different directions by the wind December 12, 1971 - New London, Connecticut, USA - Spill of irradiated water December 1972 - Pawling, New York, USA - Contamination The 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash, Thule affair or Thule accident (pronounced ) was an accident on January 21, 1968, involving a United States Air Force (USAF) B-52 bomber. The ai...