Item COLD WAR 25/2 - Transcript of interview with eyewitness to the 1966 Palomares B-52 crash, Antonio Flores, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Antonio Flores, Spanish witness of the Palomares incident, the collision of a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress and a Boeing KC-135 tanker aircraft over Spain resulting in the loss of the two aircraft and the crash landing of four thermonuclear weapons, Spain, Jan-Apr 1966, relating to the detonation of the high explosive charges in the three B-28 thermonuclear bombs that landed near Palomares, Spain, Jan 1966; the radioactive contamination of Palomares, Spain, 1966; the US clean up operation and the removal of large amounts of soil and the tomato harvest from Palomares, 1966; the reaction of the local Spanish population to the Palomares incident, 1966; the publicity swim, off Palomares, Spain, by the US Ambassador to Spain, 1966. 15pp