Palomares is to hit the big screen soon in a Hollywoood production. The producer of Saving Private Ryan, Mark Gordon, is to start work soon on a new project for Miramax films called 'Muchas Gracias, Bob Oppenheimer'. The film centres on an American serviceman in the 1960s who is sent on an appeasement mission to a fishing town in Spain after a U.S. military plane crash results in the accidental detonation of four hydrogen bombs; in addition to his role with the locals, the serviceman also embarks on a relationship.
The project draws from the story of Palomares, where in 1966 an American B-52 bomber crashed and released more than 1,000 tons of nuclear material.
This will not be the first Hollywood production which makes reference to the Palomares incident.
While serving on the salvage ship USS Hoist during operations to recover the bomb which fell into the sea, navy diver Carl Brashear had his leg crushed in a deck accident. His story was the inspiration for the 2000 Cuba Gooding, Jr. film Men of Honor.
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