Search for Lost H-Bomb Continues

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:02 pm

[Community -> Update]

A few weeks ago it was reported a hydrogen bomb accidentally dropped by a B-47 bomber off the Georgia coast in 1956 may have been spotted after picking up some "unusual radiation readings". Today government scientists are meeting with retired Air Force lieutenant colonel Derek Duke to go over data collected near the area. Duke has been searching for the missing bomb for years and has finally gotten some attention. The Air Force claims there's nothing to worry about because the bomb is missing the plutonium capsule for a trigger. Meanwhile they say bad things can happen if you mess with the uranium and 400 pounds of explosives contained within.
 Spotted at: <A HREF="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... omb">Yahoo! News</a>

Ernesto · Post by **Ernesto** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:13 pm

How did they lose it in the first place? One doesn't chuck a H-Bomb into the Atlantic on a whim.

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:16 pm

It dropped the bomb after colliding with a fighter jet during a training flight.

Ernesto · Post by **Ernesto** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:33 pm

Ah, and back then the technology wasn't there to retrieve it. I got it.

Is anyone else wondering what kind of life is living near that bomb? With "unusual radiation readings" over 50 years, there might be some cool looking fish. Finding Nemo gone super mutant, perhaps?

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 10:25 pm

Is it near Haiti?

Goggles · Post by **Goggles** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 11:32 pm

No it's near Georga. Even better.

fallout ranger · Post by **fallout ranger** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 6:40 am

how deep are the waters it's in?

ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 12:56 pm

About 8 feet. You can see the tail end of it sticking up from the beach.

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 2:57 pm

They had all the technology you need to retrieve it, it simply couldn't be found. Ten weeks of diver searches amounted to nothing.

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 3:32 pm

perhaps it exploded

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 5:08 pm

And you came out of it?