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A US atom bomb nearly exploded in 1961 over North Carolina that would have been 260 times more powerful than the device that devastated Hiroshima, according to a declassified document. It became a chaos with the explosion and the fire and smoke. It was an error but the plutonium core was not in the bomb until the order was given to arm the devise.

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