Posted on 09/29/2004 4:49:02 PM PDT by mjp
Bomber dumped H-bomb off Georgia coast 46 years ago SAVANNAH, Georgia (AP) -- Spurred by what appear to be unusual radiation readings offshore, the U.S. government is sending a team of 20 scientists to try to find a hydrogen bomb lost off the Georgia coast in 1958. Scientists from the Pentagon and the National Labs met on Wednesday with Derek Duke, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel who has searched for the missing 7,600-pound nuke over the past five years. Duke has detected what he believes are unusual radiation readings in Wassaw Sound near Tybee Island. A B-47 bomber dumped the H-bomb into the Atlantic Ocean 46 years ago after the plane collided with a fighter jet during a training flight. Navy divers searched the shallow, murky waters near Tybee Island for nearly 10 weeks before declaring the bomb irretrievably lost. The bomb became one of 11 "Broken Arrows" -- nuclear bombs lost during air or sea mishaps, according to U.S. military records. The Air Force contends there is no danger of a nuclear blast from the bomb off the Georgia coast, because it did not contain the plutonium capsule needed to trigger one.
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It's in a peanut warehouse in Plains.
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