Ivana Hughes
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Right now at the bottom of the ocean, yeah.
And no one's tried to retrieve them?
Fell off a submarine, fell off a plane, you know, all kinds of accidents.
It wasn't just two submarines colliding.
There was also airplanes carrying nuclear warheads colliding.
Seriously?
Yeah, there was once a...
A nuclear warhead that was dropped quite literally into someone's backyard in South Carolina.
It didn't go off.
It had like multiple security kind of systems.
And the last one held.
Everything else, you know, had given way.
Yeah, absolutely.
I forget the exact year.
Most of these incidents were in the 1950s.
But that was kind of a period of really stupid accidents.
And then what is often referred to in the field as close calls sort of got more sophisticated.
In 1962, of course, we had the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Yes.
Famously.