Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

In 1945, as World War II was coming to an end, US forces were making plans to invade

the Japanese mainland.

On August 6th, after months of air raids conducted against the Japanese people, the United

States dropped the atom bomb over Hiroshima, followed by another bomb over Nagasaki a few

days later.

Hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed.

Those who survived were subjected to horrible side effects, such as cancer and severe burns,

while children born in the aftermath had numerous complications and birth defects.

And while those two bombs remain the only times nuclear force has been used during war,

countries all over the world continue to threaten mass destruction with similar weapons

to this day.

In fact, in 1958, a nuclear incident occurred in a very unexpected location.

South Carolina, and most people, have never heard of it.

In March of that year, a Boeing B-47 bomber departed Hunter Air Force Base in Savannah, Georgia,

bound for the United Kingdom.

Safely tucked inside its cargo bay was a Mark VI nuclear bomb, an explosive based on

the original bomb that leveled Nagasaki 13 years earlier.

The bomber's mission was simple.

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