Lost Nuke: The Last Flight of Bomber 075, Revised Edition uncovers the extraordinary true story behind the United States’ first "Broken Arrow" incident—an accident involving a nuclear weapon—during the tense early years of the Cold War.
Just before midnight on February 13, 1950, a US Air Force B-36 bomber caught fire over Canada’s northwest coast. The crew bailed out, the aircraft vanished into the night, and the military maintained an uneasy silence. Nearly four years later, the wreckage surfaced not in the ocean, but in the remote mountains of British Columbia, far from where it was believed to have gone down.
This narrative traces the final flight of bomber 075 and explores the mystery of America’s first lost nuclear bomb. Was the weapon jettisoned and destroyed over the Inside Passage, or detonated where the aircraft ultimately came to rest? Drawing on decades of secrecy, conflicting accounts, and official misdirection, the book pieces together a chilling episode at the intersection of military aviation, nuclear arms, and political strategy.
Ideal for readers interested in Cold War history, aviation disasters, and military secrecy, it offers a detailed, suspenseful account of a little-known nuclear incident on Canada’s rugged west coast.
