{"id":113309,"date":"2024-08-23T18:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/6-alarming-broken-arrow-b-52-bomber-crashes-cold-war\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T18:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T08:00:12","slug":"broken-arrow-6-alarming-nuclear-us-military-b-52-crashes-of-the-cold-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=113309","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Broken Arrow&#8221;: 6 Alarming Nuclear US Military B-52 Crashes Of The Cold War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    While no <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/nuclear\/\">nuclear weapons<\/a> have been used in anger since World War Two, <a href=\"http:\/\/simpleflying.com\/nuclear-bombs-us-air-force-lost\/\">at least six nuclear weapons known about have been lost<\/a> by the United States and never recovered (a number likely much higher, given the lack of Soviet\/Russian transparency). Since 1950, there have been 32 nuclear weapon incidents known as &#8220;Broken Arrows&#8221; (many <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/congress-wants-us-air-force-b-52-bombers-to-carry-nukes-again\/\">with nuclear-carrying B-52s<\/a>). According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atomicarchive.com\/almanac\/broken-arrows\/index.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >atomicarchive.com<\/a>, &#8220;<em>A Broken Arrow is defined as an unexpected event involving nuclear weapons that result in the accidental launching, firing, detonating, theft, or loss of the weapon.<\/em>&#8221;    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B-52 crashes are responsible for many of the most worrisome nuclear accidents during US Air Force Cold War history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,2038,408,412,3460,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-b-52","category-history","category-military","category-nuclear","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113310,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113309\/revisions\/113310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}