{"product_id":"b52-down-the-night-the-bombs-fell-from-the-sky-9781940553108","title":"B52 Down! The Night the Bombs Fell From the Sky","description":"\u003cp\u003eJanuary 1964: America is embroiled in the Cold War. Tensions erupt following the Cuban Missile Crisis  and the United States and Soviet Union both possess massive nuclear arsenals  poised to engage in mutually assured destruction. For the United States  this means that massive aircraft armed with nuclear weapons are constantly circling allied airspace  ready to attack at a moments notice. A B-52 Stratofortress  icon of American airpower  suffers engine failure while on patrol and must return for repairs. A retrieval crew expects a short flight from Massachusetts to bring the aircraft to its base in Georgia. But within an hour of departure  the flight collides with a colossal blizzard. Wind shear rips off the tail  sending the aircraft into a spiral. The crew must ejectat 30 000 feet  in a blinding blizzard  in the middle of the night. Crew members land miles away from each other in the mountains of western Maryland  facing near zero temperatures  up to four feet of snow  and difficult terrain. They have only their parachutes and simple survival kits. Phones ring in pre-dawn hours to alert military authorities and emergency responders  spurring a town-wide effort to find the downed crew in bleak conditions. But the situation is more dire with the aircrafts payload of live nuclear bombs on boarda payload with more than 1 000 times the destructive potential than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in WWII. Crews must race to prevent the loss of life of the crew and the unthinkable detonation of nuclear weapons or radiation leaks on American soil. This is the story of a community-wide effort to band together and overcome incredible odds to help crew and country in the wake of a B-52 down.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45924448272437,"sku":"ByrdShop_1940553105","price":240.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781940553108.jpg?v=1787670974","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/b52-down-the-night-the-bombs-fell-from-the-sky-9781940553108","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}