non-proliferation

The announcement comes amid a long-standing controversy between China and the Nuclear Suppliers’ Group (NSG), an international atomic energy agency.

In January 1961 a B-52 bomber broke up over North Carolina, dropping two nuclear bombs on rural Wayne County. “By the slightest margin of chance,” recently released documents reveal, “literally the failure of two wires to cross, a nuclear explosion was averted.”

The announcement comes amid a long-standing controversy between China and the Nuclear Suppliers’ Group (NSG), an international atomic energy agency.

In January 1961 a B-52 bomber broke up over North Carolina, dropping two nuclear bombs on rural Wayne County. “By the slightest margin of chance,” recently released documents reveal, “literally the failure of two wires to cross, a nuclear explosion was averted.”