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== Real Life ==

* In 1966, a B-52G collided with its KC-135 refueller off the southern coast of Spain, the KC-135 exploding and the B-52 breaking up. Of the four nuclear weapons being carried at the time by the bomber, three dropped on land near the fishing village of Palomares, Spain, and the remaining one fell in the Mediterranean Sea. All four devices were eventually recovered, though the conventional explosives of two of the three that fell on land detonated, contaminating the area with weapon grade plutonium.

** To make it worse, they attempted to recover the weapons and clean up the contamination, all while insisting to the Spanish officials and locals that there was [[Implausible Deniability|absolutely nothing going on.]] Part of the [[Pun|fallout]] from this was that American jets were not allowed to fly over Spanish territory for years afterwards, including during an operation where bombers were launched from England to strike targets in Libya in the 80's<ref>The jets, retaliating for a series of terrorist attacks backed by the Libyan government, were forced to fly from England, around Spain, and up the length of the Mediterranean to hit their targets, then fly back the same way they came.</ref>