[NormsRevenge]

It's like an 11-foot-long bullet with a snub nose and four stubby fins. Written on it is its name: "No. 47782." Enclosed in its metal skin are 400 pounds of conventional explosives and a quantity of bomb-grade uranium.

No. 47782 is a hydrogen bomb, a Mark 15, Mod 0, one of the earliest thermonuclear devices (Castle Nectar / Zombie) developed by the United States.

It has rested off Savannah since 1958.

SciScoop Forum - Link - The Lost H-Bomb Of Tybee Island

http://www.sciscoop.com/story/2004/5/3/72022/88347

[softwarecreator]

What's the shelf-life on these things?  I know the potency dissipates after time, but would this material still be considered a weapons threat or a biological hazard?

How long can the 'conventional weapons' be potent?

[endthematrix]

"Enclosed in its metal skin are 400 pounds of conventional explosives..."

Remember the Al Qa Qaa affair? This was what those explosives were for...the Iraqi A bomb.

"...and a quantity of bomb-grade uranium."

Iraqi nuclear scientists were performing separation techniques exactly the way we did to produce the fissile material used in our bombs.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Now that's da bomb, yo!