A crashed nuke, a burning bomber, and Denmark's radioactive secret nobody talks about.
A B-52 bomber crashes and burns, killing one crew member, and destroying the four weapons the bomber carried, leading to some radioactive contamination that required a cleanup operation monitored by the Danish government.
Practical Effects
Claustrophobic B-52 interiors that'll make you sweat
Writing
Danish-German diplomatic tension sharper than the radiation
Director
Patrick Sass
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The actual 1968 Thule crash contaminated 700,000 gallons of ice; Denmark didn't get full disclosure until 1995. The US wanted the incident buried deeper than the plutonium.
This film reignited diplomatic tensions: Greenland's Inuit activists cited it as evidence of nuclear colonialism. Denmark still compensates cleanup workers dying of cancer.
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