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This report examines the 1968 crash of a US B-52 bomber, equipped with four hydrogen bombs, near Thule Air Base in Greenland. The author points out that for more than four decades, the official American and Danish explanations have consistently stated that all four nuclear weapons were destroyed in the accident. This theory is backed by the author who concludes that the Americans were not looking for the bombs in the aftermath, but rather for a weapons component, almost certainly a uranium 235 fissile core from the secondary stage of the weapons.