Dr. Jack ReVelle disarmed two hydrogen bombs that accidentally fell near Goldsboro during the Cold War. But a military career of cleaning up nuclear accidents may have cut his life short.
The Cartel Partners With David Permut on THE GOLDSBORO BROKEN ARROW
Information about the event was kept classified until 2013.by TV News Desk
Stan Spry and Eric Woods of The Cartel have teamed up with prolific producer David Permut (Hacksaw Ridge, Face/Off) to acquire the motion picture rights to Joel Dobson s illuminating novel The Goldsboro Broken Arrow based on the harrowing true story of one of the most serious nuclear accidents in history, Military veteran and filmmaker Robert Edwards (King s Gambit, Blackwater) is on board to write the screenplay adaptation.
Dobson s book follows the formerly classified events that took place in 1961 when four pilots ejected out of a B-52 aircraft carrying two thermonuclear bombs at 9,000 feet after the plane was struck multiple times by lightning and lost a wing. One pilot died, three others survived, and the two nuclear bombs fell at a velocity of 700 mph and crashed into Goldsboro, N.C.
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