On February 5, 1958, a B-47 bomber dropped a 7,600-pound nuclear weapon of mass destruction into the waters off Tybee Island, Georgia, after a collision with an F-86 fighter jet.
According to Armscontrolcenter.org, the Mark 15 hydrogen thermonuclear bomb has an explosive yield of up to 3.8 megatons, roughly 190 times more potent than the bomb that destroyed Nagasaki in 1945.
Finally, a 2001 report revealed that the bomb posed no hazard. Some sources say that it was disabled.
Written By John G. Clark Jr.
