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Sort of. There are very few scenarios where I can imagine one nuclear bomb being dropped on a US target, accident by our own military seems most likely followed by terrorism then a suicidal nuclear power, and in all three of those scenarios I doubt the bomb would hit where any planning suggests it would.


A nuclear bomb (several hundred times larger than the one dropped on Hiroshima) was accidentally dropped in the US in 1961[1]. Luckily it (obviously) didn't detonate.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/20/usaf-atomic-bo...




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