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The atomic bomb that faded into South Carolina history
Sixty years ago, on March 11, 1958, an Air Force bomber dropped a nuclear weapon on a farm in the rural Mars Bluff community outside Florence. The radioactive payload either wasn’t loaded in the warhead or didn’t detonate — the stories differ.
By Bo Petersen, The Post and Courier of Charleston (S.C.) via AP