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PALOMARES. Spain, Jan. was searching the Spanish countryside tonight, reported ly seeking an atomic device | lision of a B-52 bomber and a| at the scene refused to. con-1 firm or deny that a nuclear I bomb was carried by the B-52| jet tanker during a refueling ! mission over Spain. Hundreds of U.S. troops: were searching the seen, some of them armed with I geiger counters. When asked.| what the geiger counters were for, an information officer j said: “What are geiger count ers normally used for?” It was understood on good several atomic devices and jthat all but one of them had been accounted for after the ■ 1 crash, which killed seven men. Other American bombers, carrying defused nuclear bombs have crashed without incident in the past in the United States. Nuclear sci entists have said repeatedly I fhat a nuclear bomb aboard a ] plane, cannot be detonated un til it is armed, even on the impact of a crash, i Department said: “We have no ] comment on the report.”') Almeria, Spain, Jan. 20 Iffl — Ai United States jet bomber v/hiehJ tumbled from the skies onto Spa nish soil here Monday after collid- ? with a tanker plane carried s side near ' the Mediterranean coast, bringing death to seven of Ihe eleven crewmen. An Air Force announcement to day confirmed the B-52 bomber mamenc’- on its training flight across the Atlantic from its Sey mour Johnson base L North Ca “A SAC bomber engaged in re fueling operations off the coast of Spain, and which suffered an ac cident, with a KC-1S5 maker, was carrying unarmed nuclear ar mament,” said a brief United States Air Force announcement a raoioiogicsi survey nor. m; l a ri llshed that there is ro dznfoc ut Air Force officer:: ehing ,‘.-,0 crash area ter rer r' . of fho swer to v "sure:: y. to t