The Indianapolis Star wrote on December 13, 2018: “Most people know nothing about Indiana's nuclear bomb incident." The term “Cold war” sometimes belies that fact that that war produced very real casualties.
During the civil war, the manufacture of powder and explosives was often handled by the most vulnerable, young women and children, whose labor was needed when so many men had been sent off to war. On March 13, 1863, the confederacy experienced a munitions disaster, in the confederate capitol of Richmond.