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The Tybee Bomb

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…