11 'LOST' Atomic Bombs. One is near Tybee Island, by Savannah GA. [View all]

[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.