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The Day the United States Dropped Four Nuclear Bombs on Spain: Palomares’ Muted Miracle

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Do we really believe that the strategic security of the great powers is infallible when four nuclear bombs ended up scattered by an agricultural village in Almeria by a simple error of calculation in a refuelling? On the morning of January 17, 1966, the sky of Palomares’s pedaria split in two when an American bomber collided with a tanker plane, releasing a destructive load that far exceeded Hiroshima’s power on Spanish soil. The impact did not …
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Do we really believe that the strategic security of the great powers is infallible when four nuclear bombs ended up scattered by an agricultural village in Almeria by a simple error of calculation in a refuelling? On the morning of January 17, 1966, the sky of Palomares’s pedaria split in two when an American bomber collided with a tanker plane, releasing a destructive load that far exceeded Hiroshima’s power on Spanish soil. The impact did not …

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Qué! broke the news in on Friday, March 6, 2026.
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