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Mystery of lost US nuclear bomb
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Posted on 11/11/2008 8:55:24 AM PST by austrian

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To: Pan_Yan

metal + n = mental.


21 posted on 11/11/2008 9:25:47 AM PST by Pan_Yan (America has proved it's not racist. Now it needs to prove it's not suicidal.)
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To: Plutarch

Glacier Girl (P-38) - recovered from under 200 + feet of ice in Greenland and reflown transatlantic 50 years later.


22 posted on 11/11/2008 9:33:10 AM PST by sbMKE
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To: austrian

I knew a guy who was an Air Force electrician (an enlisted man) at that time who had been happily stationed at Tinker AFB, but was suddenly sent up there to look for parts. He spent weeks scouring landside and iceside for Buff debris. He used to sit in the chow hall at meal time with a pouting frown on his face. He noticed another guy who had been doing the same thing for weeks. One day, they made eye contact and burst out laughing.

Pretty grim duty, nonetheless. Think of doing that day-in and day-out for weeks.


23 posted on 11/11/2008 9:34:51 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (The Democratic Party strongly supports full civil rights for necro-Americans.)
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To: Robe

About 5 miles out. Come on down to Savannah and have a visit. You’ll enjoy the afterglow!


24 posted on 11/11/2008 9:39:36 AM PST by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: Pan_Yan

Why do I have a metal picture of a bunch of Al-Queda nutjobs on dogsleds trying to figure out how to steer?


well this would be wonderfull don´t you think? imagine no terror acts for the next 100.000+ years because i think it would take a “little” time for whole al-queda to search Greenland after a nuclear bomb lost 40 years ago. which is now burried somewhere deep down under the frozen surface.


25 posted on 11/11/2008 9:40:28 AM PST by austrian
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To: Plutarch

I was in Boise two summers ago at the Warbirds museum. They happened to be celebrating the recovery of the P-38s in Greenland. Very interesting story. There were a lot of WW2 pilots there that day, including a lady who flew p-38s, if I recall correctly. It was really cool. My daughter was impressed.


27 posted on 11/11/2008 9:43:31 AM PST by hoppity
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To: austrian

for later.


28 posted on 11/11/2008 9:50:03 AM PST by Trajan88 (www.bullittclub.com)
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To: austrian

this can be a serious danger to world peace. just remember those “bloody” Eskimo now have “the Bomb” ;-)


29 posted on 11/11/2008 10:00:47 AM PST by austrian
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To: austrian

Don’t worry, it’ll show up on EBAY one of these days.


30 posted on 11/11/2008 10:02:31 AM PST by joethedrummer
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To: The Sons of Liberty
Russian nukes are spread around the world?

If we know we have lost 2, and we are realitively open society. And, we have witnessed many Russian screw-ups (dozens of sub accidents, rockets, etc.) but they don't even want to admit the stuff happening today, how many Russian nukes are spread around the world?

31 posted on 11/11/2008 10:04:34 AM PST by FreeAtlanta (Join the Constitution Party)
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To: joethedrummer

Don’t worry, it’ll show up on EBAY one of these days.


ME WANT. this will keep those damn burglars away (if someone wants trouble just draw a nuke instead of gun :-)


32 posted on 11/11/2008 10:05:41 AM PST by austrian
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To: Conan the Librarian
I believe the one off the SE Georgia Coast was one of the 1+ megaton bombs too. While they say there is no danger of a blast, the bomb did have a plutonium core which would be quite dangerous.

There will also probably be larger fish winning the local fishing tourneys almost forever, eh?

This bomb was lost when its plane was involved in an incident during its airborne SAC alert. We had an airborne fleet of bombers flying race track courses so they would be within reach of targets in the USSR. Curtis Lemay, a true hero, was the general in charge of SAC.

33 posted on 11/11/2008 10:07:56 AM PST by Mouton
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Of course there’s the W54 that fell down an abandoned mine shaft. Idiots.


34 posted on 11/11/2008 10:08:10 AM PST by devnull (In a 5-4 Decision We Trust)
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To: Conan the Librarian
About 5 miles out. Come on down to Savannah and have a visit. You’ll enjoy the afterglow

Been there.. probably fished over it

Afterglow? Darn I thought that was the sunset....

35 posted on 11/11/2008 10:08:41 AM PST by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: devnull

Can you give a little more info, i’m not finding anything relevant by searching.

Thanks.


36 posted on 11/11/2008 10:19:50 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.)
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To: Travis T. OJustice

You will not find much on this incident, it’s highly classified. got to go someones at the door.


37 posted on 11/11/2008 10:30:31 AM PST by devnull (In a 5-4 Decision We Trust)
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To: Travis T. OJustice; devnull

This looks like the one he’s talking about:

*October 23, 1975, Yucca Flats, Nevada

A canister containing a nuclear weapon’s fissile core fell 40 feet to the bottom of a shaft during preparations for an underground nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site. The warhead had a yield of less than 20 kilotons. Although the warhead did not detonate and there was no leakage of radioactive material, 11 Nevada Test Site workers were injured. The device was to be detonated as part of a series of underground tests code-named “Peninsula.”
http://www.cdi.org/Issues/NukeAccidents/Accidents.htm


38 posted on 11/11/2008 11:34:56 AM PST by PAR35
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To: PAR35

Sounds about right, from what i can tell, thank you.


39 posted on 11/11/2008 11:50:04 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.)
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To: devnull
Of course there’s the W54 that fell down an abandoned mine shaft. Idiots.

Idiot? I was trying to make a point!

40 posted on 11/11/2008 12:05:03 PM PST by CougarGA7 (Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
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