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Broken Arrow: How the U.S. Navy Lost a Nuclear Bomb Audiobook, by Jim Winchester Play Audiobook Sample

Broken Arrow: How the U.S. Navy Lost a Nuclear Bomb Audiobook

Broken Arrow: How the U.S. Navy Lost a Nuclear Bomb Audiobook, by Jim Winchester Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Shawn Compton Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 7.33 hours at 1.5x Speed 5.50 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: November 2020 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781705276969

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

20

Longest Chapter Length:

58:01 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

04:04 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

32:48 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

Douglas Webster was a young pilot from Ohio, newly married and with seventeen combat missions under his belt. On December 5, 1965 he strapped into an A-4 Skyhawk bomber for a routine weapons loading drill and simulated mission. After mishandling the maneuver, the plane and its pilot sunk to the bottom of the South China sea, along with a live B43 one-megaton thermonuclear bomb.

A cover-up mission began. The crew was ordered to stay quiet, rumors circulate of sabotage, a damaged weapon, and a troublesome pilot who needed "disposing of". The incident, a "Broken Arrow" in the parlance of the Pentagon, was kept under wraps until twenty-five years later. The details that emerged caused a diplomatic incident, revealing that the US had violated agreements not to bring nuclear weapons into Japan. Family members and the public only learned the truth when researchers discovered archived documents that disclosed the true location of the carrier, hundreds of miles closer to land than admitted.

For the first time, through previously classified documents, never before published photos of the accident aircraft and the recollections of those who were there, the story of carrier aviation's only "Broken Arrow" is told in full.

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