Description: On the eve of Valentine's Day, 1950, an American Strategic Air Command B-36 bomber loaded with an atomic bomb flew into the frozen night on a simulated bombing run from Alaska to San Francisco. The engines suddenly failed on this notoriously unreliable aircraft and the crew, before parachuting . . . set the autopilot to take the aircraft far out to sea.

Years later the wreckage of the bomber was accidentally discovered on a remote British Columbia mountaintop hundreds of miles from where it should have crashed deep into the Pacific Ocean. Did an atomic bomb lie undetected for years in coastal British Columbia? Or was the nuclear weapon jettisoned and destroyed only miles from Canadian shores, becoming the world's first dirty bomb? Was this America's first lost nuclear weapon?'

Written by: Norman S. Leach

Genre: History – USA - Military

Cover: Softcover

Publisher & Date: Red Deer Press – 2008 – First edition

Approx. Dimensions:   6” x 9” – 203 pages

Condition: Very Good.

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