“We stand today on the edge of a new frontier-the frontier of the 1960s, a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils-a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.” ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Undetonaded four megaton Mark 39 thermonuclear bomb,
Undetonated four megatons Mark 39
thermonuclear bomb, with its parachute still attached, after it was accidentally
dropped from a breaking apart B-52 bomber over Goldsboro, North Carolina, January 24, 1961