The day a fighter jet crashed into a crowded village but, incredibly, everybody in the path of destruction survived Sitting atop a cliff edge overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, Tintagel, a Cornish village steeped in history and Arthurian legend, was thronged with visitors and others enjoying the summer sun on July 6th 1979. Yet out over... Continue Reading →
US Airforce Almost Nukes Spain, 1966
The time the US accidently dropped not one, but three nuclear bombs on Spanish soil. The imagery of a nuclear fireball inspires awe and terror in equal doses; we all understand the capacity a massive ball of rising red flame, seen on the horizon, has to turn flesh to dust and obliterate anything in its... Continue Reading →