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- 1The 1966 Palomares Crash: Lost H-Bomb Found After 80 Days▼It Took 80 Days to Find It: A US Air Force B-52 Bomber Collided Into a Tanker and Lost a Hydrogen Bomb in the Mediterranean in 1966
A US Air Force B-52 bomber collided with a KC-135 tanker during mid-air refuelling over Spain in 1966, dropping a hydrogen bomb into the Mediterranean Sea. It took recovery teams 80 days to locate the missing weapon, which was eventually retrieved from the seabed. The incident remains one of the most famous nuclear weapons accidents in history.