S4 Ep44: The Goldsboro B-52 Crash - 1961

The CRASH BANG WALLOP Podcast

It’s 1961. It’s North Carolina USA and a Boeing B52 Stratofortress has just mislaid two 3.8 megaton Hydrogen Bombs somewhere in the sky above Goldsboro.

In what, despite the best efforts of Pentagon whitewashers, we now know to be the newly declassified 44th episode of the CB Wallop podcast, join Phil Lucas and Phil Jerrod as they discuss The Goldsboro B-52 Crash - the gigantic military plane that fell out of the sky, dumped two of the most dangerous pieces of equipment the world has ever seen into a tree and ended up creating the tensest picnic spot in North America.

Did the Pentagon keep it all secret? Well ... ****REDACTED ....REDACTED ....REDACTED****

Trigger Warning: FIRE THE NUCLEAR WEAPONS! This episode is one of the closest shaves in the history of close shaves, but it’s all about what could have happened, rather than what ended up happening - so unless you’ve got a really vivid imagination, you should be fine.

Written by Phil Lucas

Edited by Phil Jerrod

Music by Steve Adam

Audio clips

ATOMIC ALERT. 1951 Cold War Classroom Film on Atom Bomb Attack.

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Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2018/ph241/williams1/

https://www.history.com/news/document-reveals-1961-nuclear-close-call-over-north-carolina

https://www.businessinsider.com/nuclear-bomb-accident-goldsboro-nc-swamp-2017-5?r=US&IR=T

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/20/usaf-atomic-bomb-north-carolina-1961

https://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/12/us/north-carolina-nuclear-bomb-drop/index.html

https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

https://worldwarwings.com/12-interesting-facts-about-the-b-52-bomber/

https://www.uso.org/stories/2391-10-need-to-know-facts-about-the-b-52-bomber

https://www.boldmethod.com/blog/lists/2015/05/18-things-you-never-knew-about-the-b-52-stratofotress/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_39_nuclear_bomb