The Most Dangerous Grave in America — The Man Buried in a Nuclear Coffin
The Most Dangerous Grave in America — The Man Buried in a Nuclear Coffin
In 1961, deep in the Idaho desert, a U.S. Army nuclear reactor exploded.
Three men died instantly — their bodies soaked in radiation, hotter than anything man had ever touched.
One of them was Richard Leroy McKinley.
His remains were so radioactive that scientists couldn’t cremate or wash them. They couldn’t even touch them without risking death.
At Arlington National Cemetery, engineers built a grave like no other — a lead-lined metal coffin, vacuum-sealed, nested inside layers of steel and shielding, then buried deep beneath the ground. A coffin built not to preserve, but to contain.
Even after six decades, Richard’s body still hums faintly with radiation — a silent reminder of mankind’s dance with the atom.
There are no flowers on his grave. No visitors
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