Question: What could have happened if a nuclear bomb from the 1961 Goldsboro incident had detonated?
Answer: A military expert quoted in a May 2020 Our State magazine article stated that had either bomb detonated, the blast would have killed an estimated 28,000 and injured another 26,000. It would have also created a “bay of North Carolina, completely changing the configuration of the East Coast of the United States” by impacting towns such as Eureka, Kinston, Wilson, Greenville, Mount Olive, and Rocky Mount, then spreading northeast via prevailing winds.
