The James Bond movie Thunderball has SPECTRE stealing two H-bombs, which end up on the ocean floor in the Bahamas. Around the release of Thunderball, a B-52 bomber crashed into its refueling tanker, dropping H-bombs over Spain.
While none of the bombs detonated, this caused protests both at the crash site and in front of the U.S. embassy. The U.S. had to remove 5.4 acres of soil for decontamination.
You can read more about this event where real life mirrored fiction at the link.
posted 10:00 am on Monday, January 11, 2016
tags » #adst #oral history #diplomatic history #nuclear weapons #h-bomb #oops #spain #us-spain relations #thunderball