Lost Payload: The Cold War Mystery of the Tybee Island Bomb

During the height of the Cold War paranoia, the United States Strategic Air Command kept nuclear-armed bombers in the sky constantly. It was a strategy fraught with the risk of human error. In February 1958, an F-86 fighter jet accidentally collided with a B-47 bomber during a training mission off the coast of Georgia. To safely land his severely damaged bomber, the pilot was forced to jettison ...