Editing Sandia Base (section)

==Other incidents at Sandia Base==
On March 8, 1950, a fire of undetermined origin swept through the stockade at Sandia Base, killing fourteen prisoners. Several officers and military firefighters were seriously injured.<ref>The New Mexican (Santa Fe, N.M.) ''Quiz in 14 Deaths at Sandia Base  Brig Ordered By Military'', March 19, 1950, p.1, col. 4</ref>

On May 22, 1957, a B-36 ferrying a nuclear weapon from [[Biggs AFB]] to Kirtland AFB dropped a nuclear weapon on approach to Kirtland AFB. The weapon impacted the ground 4.5 miles south of the Kirtland control tower and 0.3 miles west of the Sandia Base reservation. The weapon was completely destroyed by the detonation of its high explosive material, creating a crater 12 feet deep and 25 feet in diameter. [[Radioactive contamination]] at the crater lip amounted to 0.5 [[milliroentgen]].<ref name="CG-HR-3">{{cite web | title=Historical Records Declassification Guide, CG-HR-3, U.S. Department of Energy, Appendix B |date=October 2005 |publisher= Office of Classification and Information Control, DoE | url=https://fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/cg-hr-3/appb.pdf}}</ref>