On Jan. 17, 1966, a US B-52 Stratofortress bomber and a refueling plane collided during a refueling operation near the southern Spanish village of Palomares, killing seven of 11 crew members. At the time, the US was keeping nuclear-armed warplanes in the air near the Soviet border as the Cold War was in full swing. According to […]
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