58 years ago, plutonium-239 belonging to the US Air Force crashed into Greenland
Greenland / Press release n°1
The half-life of plutonium-239 is 24,100 years.
On Sunday, January 21, 1968, at around 9 a.m. local time, the Boeing B-52G bomber known as HOBO 28 took off from Platsburgh Air Force Base (New York State) for Mission Junky 14 over the Arctic Circle, Greenland and the US Thule Air Base.
Beauty and the Beasts
Sunday 28 December 2025
Free and sparkling, Brigitte Bardot was catching the light. She hijacked the spotlight and turned it on the animal world, with tenderness and relentless dedication.
“On the Trail”, the Information and analysis bulletin on animal poaching and smuggling, is supported by the Fondation Brigitte Bardot and the Fondation Franz Weber. When Franz Weber departed for another world in 2019, Brigitte Bardot wrote: “It is thanks to him that I have become the warrior, the fighter against all kinds of atrocities that humans inflict on animals throughout the world”.
