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When dynamite truck blew up, it looked like nuclear war

It's hard to imagine what it must have been like in the cockpit of the Frontier Airlines passenger liner, flying along at 17,000 feet in the middle of the night, when the pilot saw the mushroom cloud rising over an Oregon city. The year was 1959. All over the country, children were "ducking and covering" to prepare for the nuclear war that everyone knew was a real possibility. Only...
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McKenzie River Reflections broke the news in McKenzie Bridge, United States on Tuesday, January 27, 2026.
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