{"id":1005,"date":"2023-07-10T18:07:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T18:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/how-two-nuclear-bombs-accidentally-fell-on-a-us-farm-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2023-07-10T18:07:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T18:07:22","slug":"how-two-nuclear-bombs-accidentally-fell-on-a-us-farm-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/how-two-nuclear-bombs-accidentally-fell-on-a-us-farm-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"How two nuclear bombs accidentally fell on a US farm \u2013 BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/euqK34FwcQo?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>On January 23rd, just three days after John. F. Kennedy delivered his inaugural speech as the 35th President of the United States, one little-known event could have changed American history in the most catastrophic way imaginable.<\/p>\n<p>A refuelling accident caused a B-52 bomber to break apart above a farm in Goldsboro, North Carolina, causing two 3.8 megaton nuclear bombs to plummet to the ground. Bar one small safety switch and a huge amount of luck, millions could have been killed.<\/p>\n<p>Accidents like this are known as &#8216;Broken Arrows&#8217; and they have happened more than many people realise.<\/p>\n<p>Video by Michal Bialozej<br \/>\nNarration by Dan John<\/p>\n<p>#bbcreel #bbc #bbcnews #history<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=euqK34FwcQo\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 23rd, just three days after John. F. Kennedy delivered his inaugural speech as the 35th President of the United States, one little-known event could have changed American history in the most catastrophic way imaginable. A refuelling accident caused a B-52 bomber to break apart above a farm in Goldsboro, North Carolina, causing two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[356,15,17,16,350,351,18,19,349,193,352,353,355,354],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humans","tag-america","tag-bbc","tag-bbcnews","tag-bbcreel","tag-cold-war","tag-cold-war-history","tag-factual","tag-features","tag-historical","tag-history","tag-jfk","tag-kennedy","tag-us","tag-usa","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}