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2024-05-25 17:00:40
This map excludes Spain, which was nuked accidentally on January 17, 1966, when a U.S. B-52 bomber collided with a KC-135 tanker plane while refueling, which ended up dropping four bombs near the town of Palomares. Source: [Link]
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2024-05-25 22:16:28
The Palomares bomb incident can't be considered "nuking" as the bombs' nuclear warheads didn't explode. The explosion was limited to the dynamite contained in the bomb and radioactive contamination is more akin to a spill or leakage than a nuclear explosion. [Link]
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2024-05-26 07:50:05
France is missing from the map. Several tests were carried out in French Polynesia, notably Moruroa : [Link]
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