[GingisK]

This is exactly what I would say if I nabbed a nuke.

[Charles Martel]

The warhead, which did not contain radioactive material, was jettisoned from a U.S. Air Force B-36 bomber after the plane caught fire.

So it was a non-nuclear nuke?

[Charles Martel]

From another source:

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"The B-36 Peacemaker would take off on Feb. 13, 1950, from Eielson Air Force Base in Fairbanks, Alaska, fly south off the Canadian coast, on a simulated bombing run over San Francisco before flying home to Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth."

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Alaska and Texas nuke San Francisco. Now that is what I call a prescient training mission. ;-)

[BraveMan]

Old ship boiler?
https://www.google.com/search?q=old+ship+boiler&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwieuovw3szQAhUBWCYKHXyoC34QsAQIHA&biw=1525&bih=734&dpr=0.9

[wideminded]

It was obvious from the description by the guy that found it that it was not a bomb.

[Islander7]

A B36 was on static display at Chanute AFB in Illinois when I was in tech school in 1973. Hugh plane. (This pic is not Chanute, BTW)

[super7man]

Good book on the subject. Interesting style of writing. Presents the facts at the time of the incident. Presents later revelations. Speculates on the truth.

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Nuke-Flight-Bomber-Revised/dp/1772031283

[JGT]

“an industrial hunk of steel”

Is that the technical name for it?

[tet68]

Cmdr. Stephan Gresmak said military specialists determined the object was not an unexploded military munition. “It was safe and there was no danger,” said Gresmak who is with Joint Task Force Pacific.

“It was determined to be a weather balloon...”

[PLMerite]

"... identified as an industrial hunk of steel."

Perfectly safe. See, I'll whack it with this hammer...

...oops.