In January 1966 a B-52 bomber collided with a KC-135 tanker over Spain spilling its contents of Mk-28 hydrogen bombs. Three landed near the village of Palomares, the fourth fell into the ocean. The non-nuclear explosives in two of them detonated contaminating a 2 square kilometer area with plutonium.
Here is a story of the veterans that got stuck cleaning it up.
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