Mystery of lost US nuclear bomb

[Theis]

The United States abandoned a nuclear weapon beneath the ice in northern Greenland
following a crash in 1968, a BBC investigation has found.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7720049.stm

Very interesting article..

[ozzy72]

Whoops. Americans are nearly as absent minded about nuclear weapons as Russians. Worrying isn't it? Makes you wonder what else has been going on that we've not yet heard about.....

[Brando14100]

Whoops. Americans are nearly as absent minded about nuclear weapons as Russians. Worrying isn't it? Makes you wonder what else has been going on that we've not yet heard about.....

We lost an H-bomb in the mud in a river in Georgia. I think it was Georgia. Anyway, we can't find it.



8-)

[ozzy72]

I just loved the way that the USAF lost one by leaving it strapped onto a B52. That was just mind boggling
I know the Russians and other ex-Soviet states have "misplaced" lots of them. Wouldn't surprise me if the British government lost a few as well!

[Sir_Crashalot]

I already packed my shovel and put on my warm wintercoat. I'm off to Greenland...

Crash

[BFMF]

Wow, losing nuclear bombs makes me all warm and fuzzy inside

[H]

We lost an H-bomb in the mud in a river in Georgia. I think it was Georgia. Anyway, we can't find it.

Just what are you implying?   I did not lose anything -- I only changed flights in Atlanta! We didn't even stray off the airport.

Whoops. Americans are nearly as absent minded about nuclear weapons...

Not absent-minded: our submarine couldn't retrieve it after it melted through the ice. It was then determined, "If we can't find it, no one else can." Another mental description comes to mind.

8-)

[Fozzer]

A fascinating read...

Its surprising how many technical problems occurred on all sides, during the 1950's - 1960's, in the Aeronautical Industry.....

..... culminating in the abandoned attempt to land Humans on the Moon in 1969, and the subsequent filmed reconstruction of the event in the Nevada Desert*.... ...!

F..... ... ....!



* .....probably maybe perhaps....(Love it! .....sorry Chums, cant resist!!)... ... ... ...!

[EJW]

Such accidents were not as uncommon as you may imagine. In the 1960s such things happened relatively frequently.

-16/4/1961: Tu-95 crashed 250 mi of Vladivostok. The aircraft was loaded with 4 7000lb nuclear bombs at the time of the crash.
3 of the 4 were discovered two weeks later. The forth was discovered 1 month later in a lake.

-8/12/1962: Tu-95 forced to drop 1 7000lb nuclear bomb 50 miles off Russian coast in the Sea of Okhotsk due to the failure of two of its engines and damage to the third engines prop. Bomb destroyed on impact. No explosion.

-19/2/1964: Tu-95 involved in a mid-air collision with a Sukhoi Su-9 over Bavhdar Lot, Kazakhstan. Rumoured that among wreckage were nuclear bombs.

The USSR were a lot less 'safety cautious' than most NATO nations when it came to nukes.

Info from a school book I forgot to return

[specter177]

There are two nuclear torpedoes in the USS Scorpion wreckage.

[Ravang]

I just loved the way that the USAF lost one by leaving it strapped onto a B52.

[H]

The Air Force did a nice job of keeping it quiet.

Well, they told us it was dropped on some Bluff on Mars... everyone thought it was a retaliation for that War of the Worlds episode.

8-)

[Bruce448]

read this then

http://www.rense.com/general45/drop.htm

[EJW]

The frightening thing is that when they landed in the Med there were 4 ships within a 5mi radius with a total combined crew and passanger count of 471.