11 'LOST' Atomic Bombs. One is near Tybee Island, by Savannah GA.

[TheBlackAdder]

We've all heard the story about how North Carolina almost got nuked on January 24, 1961.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accidents


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But, did many know that the US lost 11 nuclear bombs, and one of them is 100 times as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb and it's off the shore of Savannah Georgia, in Wassaw Sound?


If you read the Counterpunch article... the search for THAT bomb was called off a couple of months later when ANOTHER H-Bomb was accidentally dropped on Florence, South Carolina. In that droppage, the 200lbs of TNT exploded, scattering radioactive debris over an area.


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In 1958, a B-47 Bomber dropped it after it struck another aircraft. The bomb is presumed to be sitting in silt, unable to be detected by the US military after all of these years... hoping the bomb won't decay because the silt will protect it from the sea water. There is a new explorer trying to find the bomb, isolating it to a 3,000 foot by 1,000 foot area. I can't find the link to that guy... it was on some show.

Imagine if a Thunderball-type of situation occurs, where a nefarious force found the bomb before someone good did.

In any event, imagine if it's found and detonates when it's trying to be recovered.


http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/09/25/the-case-of-the-missing-h-bomb-2/

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/long-missing-h-bomb-a-risk/


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So... in just a few years, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina could have been nuked. Radioactive debris had been scattered in SC & NC, and time will tell if Savannah will continue to exist.

[Mojo Electro]

1. As far as I know

the Tybee bomb has no pit. I believe there is still a uranium jacket and thermonuclear fuel (lithium,deuterium) but as far as I know, no plutonium pit.

This is only based on various things I've read about the bomb over time. But I guess ya never know.

I think if it had a pit though, they would have never given up finding it until they found it. It's pretty harmless where it is. I think more danger would come from dicking around with it.

[TheBlackAdder]

5. Per the Counterpunch article, and a few others on ther web...

snip...

Moreover, a newly declassified 1966 congressional testimony of W.J. Howard, then assistant secretary of defense, describes the Tybee Island bomb as a “complete weapon, a bomb with a nuclear capsule.” Howard said that the Tybee Island bomb was one of two weapons lost up to that time that contained a plutonium trigger.

...snip

[Mojo Electro]

6. Thanks for the link.

I most be wearing orthopedic shoes, because I stand corrected.



I wonder why they were flying bombs around over the continental US fully armed with triggers inserted. Seems like that would be done just before deployment.

[Aerows]

2. What about the nuclear launch code

that was 0-0-0-0-0-0-0 for like 20 or 30 years. That's a good one.

http://news-beta.slashdot.org/story/13/12/01/047207/dial-00000000-to-blow-up-the-world

[doc03]

3. When I was in the army back in 1968 we would drive through

the Savanna River installation sometimes. That place was scary looking back then, it looked like the
swamp was boiling.

[KoKo]

4. Scary...

[dawg]

7. You mean that big round thing I found at the beach?

[ConcernedCanuk]

8. Makes one wonder about the ones we DON'T know about.

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We've been dumping our crap all over this planet for centuries.

Hell, even SPACE GARBAGE is becoming a problem!

Hard to believe that God created MAN and let us get away with this kinda shit . . .

Oh, we won't "get away with it" in the long run, but we are taking an awful toll on other species and the environment in the interim.

"Interim" you may be asking?

That's the time we got left before we destroy ourselves and much of the planet's ecosystem before we're gone.

UNLESS WE SMARTEN UP REAL FUCKING QUICK!

Sadly, I wouldn't bet a dime on it;

(sigh)

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