Posted on 09/13/2004 7:15:02 PM PDT by gutshot
Device dropped in ocean off Georgia during Cold War WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Government experts are investigating a claim that an unarmed nuclear bomb, lost off the Georgia coast at the height of the Cold War, might have been found, an Air Force spokesman said Monday.
The hydrogen bomb was lost in the Atlantic Ocean in 1958 following a collision of a B-47 bomber and an F-86 fighter.
A group led by retired Air Force Lt. Col. Derek Duke of Statesboro, Georgia, said in July that it had found a large object underwater near Savannah that was emitting high levels of radioactivity, according to an Associated Press report.
...... Smolinsky said if the bomb were found, a decision would have to be made about whether to try to recover it or leave it where it is. .....
The 7,600-pound, 12-foot-long thermonuclear bomb contained 400 pounds of high explosives as well as uranium.
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The United States lost 11 nuclear bombs in accidents during the Cold War that were never recovered, according to the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.
An estimated 50 nuclear warheads, most of them from the former Soviet Union, still lie on the bottom of the world's oceans, according to the environmental group Greenpeace. ......
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Boy, did that headline scare me!
It's Bush's fault.
He was suspended from flying in the Air Force ya know.
Gotta bring it up now
Reminds me of a dialogue from a certain film.
"We have a broken arrow."
"What's that?"
"A nuclear weapon we've lost control of."
"I don't know which is more scary: that we have a broken arrow or that we've actually needed a term to describe one!"
Me too
Try to stay on subject newbie
Man, you missed your thread by a country mile.
> ... said in July that it had found a large object
> underwater near Savannah that was emitting high
> levels of radioactivity, ...
And they're sure it's not a missing Russian sub because?
PING
WTH does this have to do with the article?
Do I smell ozone in the air...
Clean up in Isle #3
5.56mm
No kidding. Jeeze.
It is 10 miles from my house! They need to leave it alone!!! Let it rust!!!
? And the Heinz company refuses to bring business back to the US to employ more Americans.
This has what to do with bombs?
I've known about this since I was a boy. I was born in Savannah and my father is retired Air Force. I remember him talking about that while I was growing up.
Kinda scary to think now tho that it's emitting radiation. If that thing detonates, you can probably say goodbye to Savannah and most of the GA coast.
It has to be the right thread, it's the first and only post its ever made.
LOL
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