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The definition of security is that it is the degree of resistance to, or protection from harm. This could be well applied to a person, community or even a nation. To feel secure during the long period of Cold War was very important, but what was actually more important was to secure large amount of nuclear missiles spreaded across the world mainly in hands of two superpowers i.e. the USA and the Soviet Union. You didn´t want to start nuclear war with the other by accident as well as you wanted to feel secure about “the bombs you were sitting on. “ Despite large precautions taken there were quite a lot of accidents on both sides that could have started the nuclear war or cause an explosion of the bomb on your own territory. As time went by new measures where adopted to reduce the chance of happening either one of those things. In this first chapter we will see how carelessl where the two superpowers while handling bombs. One of the most infamous cases happened in 1966 near the southeastern coast of Spain. During a maneuver, an American B-52 bomber and a KC-135 tanking aircraft collided and both planes exploded. In the hold of the B-52, there were four hydrogen bombs. I guess we got lucky, because none of the bombs exploded, although some amount of the land got radioactive and had to be removed by the Americans. This wasn´t a solitary incident as only two years after, again on American side, B-52 bomber crashed into the ice off Greenland with the conventional explosives in the bombs exploede, causing a large area to become radioactive. The B-52 bomber carried two of those bombs, however the second one was never found. During the Cold War period the amount of lost atomic weapons on the American side is 11, the fact officialy acknowledged by The American Defense Department. Two be fair to the B-52s we can´t forget about submarines incident as many nuclear missiles were stationed there as well. In the same year, 1968, nuclear submarine USS Scorpion sank to the depth...