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What worries me more than an aircraft was carrying nuclear arms is that it was a B-52. Those things were built in the 1950's. I'd be more worried about one of them falling on my head than nukes.
I'm really kidding (sort of), but during the Cold War a percentage (a third?) of all of the US Air Force's nuclear armed B-52's were always in the air to provide faster response to potential nuclear attacks from the former Soviet Union.
To the best of my knowledge, there has never been an accidental US nuclear explosion due to an aircraft crash (or any other reason) anywhere in the world.
We're pretty careful with the things. And we're also careful with the B-52 fleet despite my making fun of them above. They've been constantly updated and carefully maintained.
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