From the Wayne County Museum pamphlet.
"Joel Dobson will speak about the January 24th 1961 crash of a nuclear weapons-equipped B-52 bomber in northeastern Wayne County. One bomb was fully recovered but the bomb disposal unit could not locate the uranium of the second device. Each bomb was 250 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb and, if detonated, would have killed all people within a seventeen mile radius.
Mr. Dobson is author of "The Goldsboro Broken Arrow." Signed copies will be available for purchase."
That would be an interesting book. I had just heard of this incident in passing and would have liked to see the presentation, but it was March 9th and I wasn't there.
Couldn't you have imagined a local resident waking up in the morning and finding a bomb that size in his back yard. Wonder what his first words would have been?
"I've Told That Neighbor Time and Again Not to Go Dropping His Stuff in My Yard!!" --DaCoot
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