USA drowning nuclear weapons…
Some people loose their wallet….
Other ones loose money on the stockmarket….
And a country did loose a little gun… uh…. no… uh… bomb…..or uh… maybe even a nuclear bomb….!!
On January the 21st, 1968 – an USA airforce plane (B52) crashed on the ice of Greenland. Four nuclear bombs where on that plane….. !!
Within a week they found the bombs back – the USA reported….. But forgot to mention that one was still missing… !!
They kept searching…. But as far as this article goes; they never found it back….
Well; okay – probably the water is rather cold over there…. = but my advice…. – don’t go for a swim near Thule.
Yep – the USA lost something in that cold cold cold war……
Interesting, after all this years the pilots speak in public about the accident, and they lost a bomb…
We do know there are more US bombs here and there on the bottom of the ocean, one off the coast of Japan after an accident in 1965, one off the coast of Georgia after an accident in 1958.
And there are Soviet bombs that were lost after accidents with submarines. There could be as many as 20 nukes (!) on the bottom of the Bay of Naples, see here:
http://www.sgpproject.org/Personal%20Use%20Only/TorpedoesNaples.html
Okay; read this to my collegue Flap = he had a good comment;
NAPLES (maffia and RUSSIUNS (without money)
Sank or sold…??
Many Soviet bombs were lost in accidents, but the bombs on the bottom of the Bay of Naples were left there on purpose… It happened already in 1970, but there must be people out there who still know where the bombs are located. There is hardly any chance the bombs still work reliable after all this time, but the bombs contain plutonium and that could be used to build new weapons…
It must be noted though that even a simple bomb based on *plutonium* is technically very challenging to produce. It is likely out of reach for non-state entities, like terrorist groups. A simple bomb based on *uranium* is much easier to produce, though…
Oh my God! 40 years and still missing! Should have been a grandmother/grandfather @ 2008 now
Aside from joking, i just wonder about this hole “nuclear bomb” and can’t even think how they used it @ WWII!
Turns out the government of Greenland knew this, and a group of workers affected by the accident tried to make it public in 2000.
More here:
http://sermitsiaq.gl/indland/article62743.ece?lang=EN