How the US Almost Nuked Its Own State of North Carolina

The bomb was 250x more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb.

The Goldsboro Mark 39 | U.S. Air Force, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

During the cold war, there were multiple incidents where the world averted nuclear disaster.

These were so frequent that the US Military has a legit term for these — a “Broken Arrow.” Broken arrow was a term used to refer to accidents that involved…