Nuclear weapons can produce some of the most devastating destruction of any device ever created by humankind -- so what happens when someone makes a mistake?

The misshapen white parcel was one of four B28 thermonuclear bombs that had ... military code for an accidental event that involves nuclear weapons, such as the loss of a nuclear weapon, or ...

On the morning of January 17, 1966, an American B-52 bomber on a secret mission over Cold War-era Europe collided mid-air with a refuelling tanker. The crash killed seven airmen aboard the tanker.

An atomic bomb and the remains of a U2 spy plane which both featured in the Cuban Missile Crisis are the star attractions of a new Cold War exhibition in Caen. The B28 Hydrogen bomb has been ...