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ILLUSTRATIONS: (1) One of the nuclear bombs recovered from the Goldsboro, N.C., B-52 crash site in 1961. (2) An EOD team works to recover the buried Mk. 39 thermonuclear bomb that fell into a Faro, N.C., field in 1961. (3) USAF personnel recovering parts of a Mk. 39 nuclear bomb that rell from a B-52 that broke up over Goldsboro, N.C. in 1961. (4) An image of the MC-772 Arm-Safe Switch of the same kind used in the Mk 39 Mod 2 nuclear bombs involved in the 1961 Goldsboro accident.

Lt.Jack ReVelle prevented a Nuclear catastrophe. RIP Hero.

RIP. Salute.