The bits they were not able to recover.
Posted on 02/16/2021 2:53:34 PM PST by SmokingJoe
The bits they were not able to recover.
A B 52 with two MK 39 nuclear weapons has the engine catch fire, which ends up with the plane exploding, in mid air, but no before the pilot had ejected the two nuclear weapons.
In addition 5 crew members ejected and survived and another 3 crew members perished.
Of the two nuclear weapons, one landed safely after its parachute deployed.
The other one's parachute did not deploy , hit the ground at 700 MPH and sank into a swamp in North Carolina.
After digging for 40 feet and not finding the bomb, the US military gave up and instead bought the land round the entire area to prevent anyone from coming there.
The US military was this close to nuking North Carolina with a very powerful nuclear weapon. And the nuke still remains there in the swamp , albeit its in a broken up up form till today.
There have been 32 broken arrow incidents with 6 nuclear weapons lost. At least those that the very secretive US government admits to. The video covers some of the other cases too. Its all but certain that the actual numbers are much higher, given that the military took its sweet time before admitting even the cases that they hav admitted to now.
What the US military admit to.
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
Not volunteering the truth is not lying.
Omitting certain facts is just good policy.
If you lost a nuke in international waters it would not be prudent to let the world know.
No problem at all. :)
I’m really surprised that the Air Force was not able to find a trace of radiation being emitted by any of the bombs.
Thanks Larry. Finally ... some quick usable information.
BTW those bombs were 250x the Hiroshima nuke.
I saw the headline, and thought that was the one they were talking about. But it is more marsh than swamp there. Looking back, the Air Force dropped quite a few H-bombs in the southeast that didn't explode (in one case, only one of the four safeties remained on safe when the unexplodeded device was recovered) during the early civil rights era. Not including the two bombs they set off in Mississippi during the LBJ era, ending real resistance to the movement by the state government.
There were two bombs. They recovered one who’s parachute had deployed and landed safely. The other one where the parachute failed to deploy sank into the swamp, and while they recovered some parts like the failed parachute etc, they never recovered the parts in the image in the OP, which are the more dangerous parts.
I thought “Broken Arrow” was for when your site got over-run by the enemy but a quick search tells me I’m wrong. But now I’m scratching my head for that term. Like in the movie “We Were Soldiers Once and Young” when they are over-run and call in for support?
Heh - I did another search. That term was used in the movie. One poster said “don’t believe everything that comes out of Hollywood”. Another poster said the term was written by the Colonel in his memoirs as to what he radioed.
When does it become inert?
Yup I lost a ‘fat man’ in a canoe accident once. Think his name was bubba.
I read that one bomb was safely dismantled but the other has been left in situ. However, the story I read mentioned nothing about a swamp-it only showed a grove of trees where the bomb was resting.
700 mph? The terminal velocity of an object in free fall is ~200 mph.
Explain that?
Really ironic that I watched that movie last night..
I knew “Broken Arrow” in the USAF as a missing nuke; But a couple of Army guys over here said that it is site overrun by enemy.
Strange 2 services would use the same code with different definitions...
What two incidents are you attributing to LBJ?
I’d believe a great deal of things about him—but at least he wasn’t a communist dupe, whatever else he was. Though using the people’s money to buy the people’s vote is a backhanded way to something sort of like socialism.
I have personally seen 500Lb bombs (yes, plural) in Germany that some lucky backhoe operator "found" that were meters below the surface. If something that volatile could remain in tact all of those years and still provide a threat (Yes, there were a lot of unlucky backhoe operators) then all bets are off as far as I'm concerned. That's the empirical evidence that exists in such a conventional situation. Who knows? with Nukes!
LBJ was a work of art, but he was no commie! Actually, the way he rolled I am quite sure the commies were afraid of him. There is a book on Archive.org written by one of his political enemies...can’t remember the name...but there are lots of interesting stories about the rampant corruption. I think the guy who wrote it was a friend of John Bel Geddes or something. Definitely worth a read.
In the book and movie “We Were Soldiers Once, and Young” Broken Arrow was the over run notice requesting full response from every US allied unit nearby to save an overwhelmed unit that was called out by General Hal Moore. His radio operator is a Freeper: Aloha_Ronnie as I recall.
The Navy uses Broken Arrow for nuke weapon incidents as well. They used to have drills on the flight deck.
Sounds like Government had boating accident
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