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An anniversary to remember: The world's only air-to-air nuke was fired on 19 July, 1957

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AFAIK to arm the Hiroshima bomb all the crew had to do was to replace green pins with red ones. Then the bomb emitted a sound to confirm it was armed. IIRC one of the original green pins was found when Enola Gay was restored.

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