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In January 1961, the United States Air Force inadvertently dropped an atomic bomb over North Carolina. If a simple safety switch had not prevented the explosive from detonating, millions of lives across the northeast would have been at risk, a newly declassified document has revealed. Three days after President John F. Kennedy's inauguration, a B-52 bomber carrying two hydrogen bombs departed from Goldsboro, North Carolina on a routine flight along the East Coast. The plane soon went into a tailspin, throwing the bombs from the B-52 into the air within striking distance of multiple major metropolitan centers. RT's Ameera David...