Lost Nuke: The Last Flight of Bomber 075, Revised EditionHeritage House Publishing Co, 2016 - 224 sivua "A story seemingly drawn out of a Hollywood action script...Gripping stuff."--Canada's History Just before midnight on February 13, 1950, three engines of a US Air Force B-36 intercontinental bomber caught fire over Canada's northwest coast. The crew jumped, and the plane ditched somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Almost four years later, the wreck of the bomber was found accidentally in a remote location in the coastal mountains of British Columbia, three hours' flying time in the opposite direction of where it was supposed to have crashed. After years of silence, the United States finally admitted to losing its very first nuclear bomb; the incident was its first Broken Arrow, the code name for accidents involving nuclear weapons. But was the bomb dropped and exploded over the Inside Passage, or was it blown up at the aircraft's resting place in the mountains? This Cold War-era tale follows the last flight of bomber 075 and attempts to unravel the real story behind more than fifty years of secrecy, misdirection, and misinformation. |
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Prologue | 6 |
Setting the Scene Chapter 1 Dawn of the Nuclear Era and the Cold War | 10 |
Birth of a Peacemaker | 16 |
The Mark IV Nuclear Bomb | 27 |
Lost Nuke Chapter 4 Abandon Ship | 33 |
Operation Brix | 44 |
Survival Stories of the Crew | 76 |
The Official Story | 83 |
What Did the Crash Site Reveal? | 131 |
What Was Known About the Bomb? | 157 |
What Happened to the Bomb? | 162 |
What Became of Ted Schreier? | 175 |
The Legend Lives On Chapter 15 Heritage Wreck | 186 |
Lost Nuke on Film | 200 |
Epilogue | 205 |
Notes | 209 |
The Mystery of Bomber 075 | 98 |
What Was Known About the Incident? | 107 |
What Did the Government Know? | 120 |
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Air Force Alaska altitude artifacts atomic bomb Aviation B-36 Peacemaker bailed Barry Borutski bomb bay Bomber British Columbia Canada Canadian Captain Barry Captain Schreier carried Carswell AFB co-pilot Coast Guard Cold comm commander crash detonators Dick Thrasher Don Pyeatt Doug Craig dropped explosives February 14 feet fire flew flying fuel fuselage Geiger counter helicopter HMCS Cayuga Ibid jettisoned Jim Laird Jim Roddick John Clearwater jumped kilocycles per second Kirkland Kispiox Valley Kuntz landing later Lieutenant Lost Nuke Mae West McChord AFB miles military mission Mount Kologet mountains Museum nuclear bomb nuclear weapons officer Operation Brix parachute Peacemaker personnel Pierre Cote pilot plane plutonium core Port Hardy Princess Royal Island propellers Queen Charlotte Sound radar RCAF RCMP remains reported Scott Deaver search and rescue September Smithers snow Staff Sergeant survivors Terrace There’s Trippodi turret USAF Vancouver Island Whitfield wreck wreckage