One of the biggest events of 1965 didn’t make the news, and, in fact, was kept completely secret for decades: possibly the worst nuclear weapon accident in American history. The December 5, 1965, Philippine sea A-4 incident deserves to be remembered.
The appeal of one strange object, which achieved dizzying popularity in my lifetime, and today lives on mostly for nostalgia, is not so difficult to explain. All you need to do is turn one on and wait.
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.