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1. A US aircraft accidentally drops two hydrogen bombs on North Carolina.
2. A nuclear warhead aboard a Soviet submarine accidentally detonates while the sub is deep underwater, vaporizing the submarine and irradiating several square miles of ocean.
3. An accident at a Ukrainian nuclear facility kills 31 and renders many square miles of land nearly uninhabitable.
4. A French nuclear submarine suffers a steam leak that causes the reactor core to overheat. The sailors SCRAM the reactor and abandon ship in the western Mediterranean.
5. An Israeli A-4 Skyhawk carrying a nuclear bomb crashes in the desert after being shot down. The bomb is never recovered.
6. An American A-4 Skyhawk carrying a nuclear bomb slides off the deck of a US aircraft carrier near Okinawa and sinks. The bomb is never recovered.
7. An American nuclear reactor in Pennsylvania suffers a serious accident, coming within minutes of a catastrophic meltdown.
8. 129 sailors die when an American nuclear submarine sinks near Boston due to undetermined causes.
9. A nuclear-powered satellite falls from orbit and crashes in North America, contaminating over 47,000 square miles of territory.
10. A single nuclear weapon goes missing from an arsenal in the Southwestern United States. After a three-hour alert, the weapon is found in a warehouse on base, inexplicably mis-labelled and mis-stored as a conventional bomb.
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