Spanish Town Struggles to Forget Its Moment on the Brink of a Nuclear Cataclysm.

The rest of the world has mostly forgotten, but a brush with nuclear Armageddon is seared in the minds of residents here and still festers, 42 years later. On the morning of Jan. 17, 1966, a United States Air Force B-52 bomber returning from a routine mission exploded during airborne refueling, sending its cargo of hydrogen bombs plummeting toward land. One went into the azure waters of the Mediterranean, and three others fell around this poor farming village, about 125 miles east of Granada. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]