A Lost Nuke?
Does this bother anyone else? This seriously troubles me. How do we loose a thermonuclear bomb? Why wasn’t it found earlier? Why were they using a real nuke for “practice”? Seems a placebo weighted similarly would suffice.
“The report also estimated it would take as long as five years and cost $5 million to $11 million to recover the bomb.”
To me this is money well spent. What if we’d spent $5 million making sure Savanah isn’t vaporized in the next 10 years? What if we’d launched 10 less of these that first night in Baghdad? A thermonuclear bomb sitting on the coast of Georgia just doesn’t make my homeland feel any safer.
“The United States lost 11 nuclear bombs in accidents during the Cold War that were never recovered, according to the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.
An estimated 50 nuclear warheads, most of them from the former Soviet Union, still lie on the bottom of the world’s oceans, according to the environmental group Greenpeace.”
Why did we go through This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 14th, 2004 at 1:31 pm and is filed under Opinion. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
June 5th, 2005 at 2:10 pm
Dear Dave,
In my bottom drawer I have some old audio tapes from a man living in the Yukon in 1950 who witnessed a story about the lost nuke in BC Canada. His story starts the day after the event however. The tapes are such an oddity I have had a screen script written. But since I saw the film about “The Lost Nuke” I can see now what it was he really saw…. I would like to share this story with you if you are interested. But right now it is a secret from the masses. Phone me if you want.
Vivian 509-485-2104
July 12th, 2005 at 5:45 pm
Ms Harper,
I’m one of the masses who happensto be interested in the fate of theodore schreier and particularly in any odd clue from the watchmans visitors.
kthomas