"50 Years of Secrecy, Misdirection and Misinformation"
Uploaded by Nionity
February 20, 2012
Just before midnight on February 13, 1950, three engines of a U.S. Air Force B-36 intercontinental bomber caught fire over Canada's northwest coast. The crew jumped, and the plane was said to be ditched somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. The fact that the huge aircraft had been carrying a Mark IV nuclear bomb was kept carefully hidden. Only after years of silence did the United States government finally admit to losing its very first nuclear bomb.
