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TheBlackAdder

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

Reply to Mojo Electro (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 26, 2013, 04:17 PM

Dec 2013

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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.

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11 'LOST' Atomic Bombs. One is near Tybee Island, by Savannah GA. [View all] TheBlackAdder Dec 2013 OP

As far as I know Mojo Electro Dec 2013 #1

Per the Counterpunch article, and a few others on ther web... TheBlackAdder Dec 2013 #5

Thanks for the link. Mojo Electro Dec 2013 #6

What about the nuclear launch code Aerows Dec 2013 #2

When I was in the army back in 1968 we would drive through doc03 Dec 2013 #3

Scary... KoKo Dec 2013 #4

You mean that big round thing I found at the beach? dawg Dec 2013 #7

Makes one wonder about the ones we DON'T know about. ConcernedCanuk Dec 2013 #8