Missing H-bomb located in sea off Spain 50 years ago today (Mar 17 1966)


Video: '1966 Palomares B-52 crash'

(Thursday, March 17, 1966; during the Cold War) — The U.S. midget submarine Alvin has found the hydrogen bomb that was lost two months ago in the collision of an American bomber and a tanker plane over Spain, official sources said tonight (the bomb would not be recovered until April 1966).