Jack revelle biography

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PERSONAL: Born August 2, 1935, in Rochester, NY; son of Mark A. (in insurance sales) and Myril B. (a secretary) ReVelle; married Brenda L. Newcombe (an attorney).

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Lt Jack ReVelle had just located and defused two nuclear bombs that accidentally fell out of a B-52 bomber over Eastern North Carolina.

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1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash

Crash of US Air Force bomber with nuclear warheads

The 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash was an accident that occurred near Goldsboro, North Carolina, United States, on 24 January 1961.

A Boeing B-52 Stratofortress carrying two 3.8-megatonMark 39 nuclear bombs broke up in mid-air, dropping its nuclear payload in the process. The pilot in command, Walter Scott Tulloch, ordered the crew to eject at 9,000 ft (2,700 m).

Five crewmen successfully ejected or bailed out of the aircraft and landed safely; another ejected, but did not survive the landing, and two died in the crash. Information declassified since 2013 has shown that one of the bombs was judged by nuclear weapons engineers at the time to have been only one safety switch away from detonation, and that it was "credible" to imagine conditions under which it could have detonated.^[2]^[3]

Accident

The aircraft, a B-52G, was based at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro,