The 1966 B-52 crash over Spain

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It was a late winter night in 1966 and a fully loaded B-52 bomber on a Cold War nuclear patrol had collided with a refueling jet high over the Spanish coast, freeing four hydrogen bombs that went tumbling toward a farming village called Palomares, a patchwork of small fields and tile-roofed white houses in an out-of-the-way corner of Spain’s rugged southern coast that had changed little since Roman times.

(The same thing happened over South Carolina in 1961
Hydrogen Bomb dropped on North Carolina by Accident
and the accident in Georgia - where the bomb is still missing!
The Case of the Missing H-Bomb: The Pentagon Has Lost the Mother of All Weapons )
 
I think I remember reading a GI Joe comic where Cobra went looking for a bomb that had been lost over Greenland.

Good plot for an action story in any case ...

Edit: Ah, turns out it must have been based on a true story! A nuclear bomb is still missing somewhere in the Greenland ice after the Thule incident (1968):
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Radioactive legacy of 'lost bomb'
 
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I saw a Danish film about the crash at Thule not so long ago. As Greenland was under Danish rule at the time it was supposed to be nuclear free zone but the Americans decided not to tell the Danes until the s*@t hit the fan when the B-52 crashed there.
see 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Also from Wiki,
"A secret attempt by the United States to construct a subterranean network of nuclear missile launch sites in the Greenlandic ice cap named Project Iceworm was carried out from Camp Century from 1960 to 1966 before being abandoned as unworkable. The Danish government did not become aware of the program's actual mission until 1997, when it was discovered while looking for records related to the crash of a nuclear-equipped B-52 bomber at Thule in 1968."

Update- the Danish film was called "Idealisten" (The Idealist) Dansk film går tæt på journalisten, der ikke tog nej for et svar and came out 2013. It follows the journalist Poul Brink and his attempts to help sick clean up crews and people who were at Thule, and to find the truth out about the base and the US/Danish secret agreements. He wrote a book about his experiences ("Thule sagan - løgnens univers" )
Trailer for the film with English sub-titles on YouTube at
 
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