{"id":15266,"date":"2016-05-17T01:00:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T06:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=15266"},"modified":"2016-05-17T01:00:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T06:00:31","slug":"cold-war-files-when-the-air-force-dropped-a-nuclear-bomb-on-south-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/17\/cold-war-files-when-the-air-force-dropped-a-nuclear-bomb-on-south-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold War Files: When the Air Force Dropped a Nuclear Bomb on South Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15267\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/05\/aba.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"ABA\" width=\"620\" height=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>A version\u00a0of this story\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.muckrock.com\/news\/archives\/2016\/may\/11\/time-air-force-dropped-nuke-south-carolina\/\">originally appeared<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.muckrock.com\/\">Muckrock.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you ever find yourself traveling on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Mars+Bluff,+South+Carolina+29506\/@34.2054328,-79.6728468,14z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x88555c80cef9eb97:0x43096464daac52b9!8m2!3d34.2054345!4d-79.6553372\">Crater Road<\/a> in Mars Bluff, South Carolina, be sure and carve out a few moments for a marker commemorating this whimsical footnote in Cold War history &#8211; that time the US nearly nuked itself.<\/p>\n<p>Although the event was written about <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/abstract.html?res=9B04EEDE1039EF3BBC4A52DFB5668383649EDE\">extensively at the time<\/a> &#8211; and it gets brought up whenever an outlet&#8217;s having <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2135832\/Boy-got-lucky-The-incredible-story-U-S-air-force-accidentally-dropped-nuclear-weapon-little-girls-playhouse-1958-South-Carolina.html\">a slow news day<\/a> &#8211; a 2012 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muckrock.com\/foi\/united-states-of-america-10\/mars-bluff-atomic-bomb-photos-2072\/#file-6078\">FOIA request by Carlton Purvis<\/a> led to the release of some rarely-seen photos of the Air Force investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder of this Story and See the Amazing Pictures at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/when-the-air-force-dropped-a-nuclear-bomb-on-south-carolina?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura&amp;utm_campaign=1d604408c2-Newsletter_5_16_20165_13_2016&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_62ba9246c0-1d604408c2-61721717&amp;ct=t(Newsletter_5_16_20165_13_2016)&amp;mc_cid=1d604408c2&amp;mc_eid=7c68d7c901\">Atlas Obscura<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A version\u00a0of this story\u00a0originally appeared\u00a0on\u00a0Muckrock.com. If you ever find yourself traveling on Crater Road in Mars Bluff, South Carolina, be sure and carve out a few moments for a marker commemorating this whimsical footnote in Cold War history &#8211; that time the US nearly nuked itself. Although the event was written about extensively at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2770],"tags":[11075,11645,11646,11647],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}