On March 11, 1958, a B-47 Stratojet bomber malfunctioned over Mars Bluff, South Carolina, and dropped a live nuclear weapon directly onto a family's home. The bomb didn't fully detonate—but the conventional explosives tore a 70-foot crater and obliterated everything nearby. What happened next was even stranger than the accident itself.
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In August 1945, a Japanese naval engineer named Tsutomu Yamaguchi had the cosmically terrible luck of being present in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki when the United States dropped atomic bombs on each city — three days apart. He survived both blasts, went on to live until age 93, and was officially recognized by his own government as a man history simply could not kill.
Mar 13, 2026