Air Force Finds No Trace of Lost Nuke

AP on Yahoo ^ | 6/17/05 | Russ Bynum - AP

[TheForceOfOne]

Just a thought, I have gone fishing before and caught an old boot. I can just imagine some guy saying, hey Charlie give me a hand, I think I really caught something here, help me pull it in! lol

[softwarecreator]

Didn't see "Sum of All Fears", any good?

[SteveMcKing]

Well, if it could not be found, it follows that there never was one.

Probably right. Maybe it was some odd program they had to see who would come snooping for it.

[CaptSkip]

It's Bush's fault...really.

Bush took a trip back to 1958 in our Gov't "Way-Back Machine" and piloted the fighter DIRECTLY into the bomber...Bush Made It Happen On Purpose. Bush was transported back into the present and into an SR-71 Blackbird, just before impact.

UBL already has taken delivery of the reconditioned H-Bomb from the CIA, after a Mossad super-secret salvage op on July 04, 1976 when Pappy Bush was with the CIA. No one noticed the Israeli frogmen in their Tie-Dyed Yarmulkes, cause everybody was watching the Tall Ships in New York Harbor.

[lilylangtree]

I believe it was "Sum of All Fears". Just remember the opening story where in 1967 during the middle east war when Israel thought she would be overrun & defeated. The leadership loaded a nuke onto an airplane. The plane was to fly under radar. Unfortunately, the plane crashed in the desert and the nuke didn't explode but was covered up by the sand for about 35-40 years. A muslim found it and dug it out of the sand and subsequently sold it on the black market to some terrorists. There was some radiation leakage that the muslim died from. Anyway, that's the most I can remember of the movie. I saw the movie only once. Real memorable, huh?

[NY Attitude]

Good flick, but not like the book. Unfortunately, Hollywood caved in to the PC of not identifying elements of the Middle East as being the culprits. The book almost paints a very realist scenario. The movie was certainly entertaining though. The Clancy character John Clark was portrayed as well.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Now that's da bomb, yo!

[Jeff Gordon]

I think I saw it in an Atlanta Surplus Store. It was kind of beat up.

[noblejones]

Holy crap! I picked that thing up years ago -- I hollowed it out and use it to boil crabs.

[LdSentinal]

I saw this on an episode of Unsolved Mysteries.

[TXnMA]

Clive Cussler found the H.L. Hunley in similar conditions, and the hunley's magnetometer signature can't be much bigger than this thing's.

Methinks the USAF is depending too heavily on finding radiation, and not on finding the bomb itself.

And they only searched an area the size of four football fields.

Not trying very hard, I'd say...

[Terpfen]

Yes, that's The Sum of All Fears.

In the original book, the Palestinians use the nuke, not neo-Nazis.

[Young Werther]

I was stationed at Minot AFB in the early 70s. I met an EWO, (Electronics Warfare Officer), who had survived a friendly fire shoot down. He was in a D model B-52 and was engaged in a Air Defense Command exercise. He was being chased by an F-86 which closed within firing range and selected his AIM-4 missile. He made sure his missile firing switch was on SAFE and pulled the trigger. Later inspection would show that the SAFE switch had crossed wires. When he pulled the trigger the AIM performed perfectly and even with an urgent call from the F-86 the EWO couldn't take action. The inboard engine pod under the right wing exploded and the B-52 broke apart.

this was the early 60s and all B-52 always flew with weapons on board! This would be changed after Palomeres!!

Gino the EWO didn't use his ejection seat since the cabin broke right at his work station. He released his seat belt and stepped out into space and safely floated to the ground. He was one of three out of six onboard who survived. When the recovery crew arrived they had to clean up the mess since four thermonucs had landed in a swampy area of South East Pennsylvania. The B-52 AC nearly cold cocked the first SAC Officer who arrived on the scene and wanted to make sure that the nuclear authenticators that each crew member wore around their necks were properly accounted for. The AC was livid since three men and four nucs were lost. The heck with the codes!

Gino became a close friend and he had one other war story. He was Italian-American and proud of the fact that his Dad had been an Ace for the Italian Air Force during WWII and in the early 70s was a senior pilot for Aeritalia! Yup his dad was mentioned in that short book of Italian war heros!

[devolve]

[softwarecreator]

Thanks, I'll check it out the next time I go to the video store.

[DB]

This makes one wonder just how good our nuclear weapons detectors really are at our ports. Considering they can't find this big, old and likely poorly shielded bomb...

[chariotdriver]

Pretty Good.

I'm convinced. It really is all Bush's fault...really

[commonasdirt]

"Clive Cussler found the H.L. Hunley in similar conditions"

Somebody call Dirk Pitt. He'll find it in a day or two and get the girl as well (There's always a girl)

[MeekOneGOP]

Rest in peace, H-bomb! :)

[Kadric]

From the sounds of the latest book Dirk and Al are retiring from field work. Dirk is replaing Sandecker as head of NUMA. Dirk and the lady Senator are getting married and Dirk's kids are taking over for dad. The kids(twin boy and girl) are from the lead lady in Pacific Vortex and showed up at the end of the pervious book all grown up and ready to go.