Buzz One Four

Buzz One Four chronicles the illfated flight of a Cold War B52 Stratofortress loaded with two 34megaton nuclear bombs that crashed 90 miles from Washington DC in 1961 Information suggests that detonation came closer than official reports indicated The full details of the crash have remained classified and otherwise repressed by the Air Force but the filmmaker Portlander Matt McCormick grew up with this story because the pilot was his grandfather As McCormick recounts the history of the era aspects of this crash and other littleknow nuclearweapons accidents he leaves us wondering if the US was in greater danger of nuking itself than of being attacked by the Russians