How The US Lost A Nuke During The Cold War | Lost Nuke

On February 13, 1950, during the Cold War, US Air Force bomber 075, carrying a Mark V nuclear weapon, crashed off the west coast of Canada after three of its engines caught fire. The crew abandoned the aircraft as it entered restricted Canadian airspace, but five crew members, including weapon armer Ted Shrier, were never found. The crash led to the world's first "Broken Arrow" incident, where a nuclear bomb was lost, and subsequent investigations and missions to the crash site were shrouded in secrecy.

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