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 AKPC_IDS += "228,"; Popularity: 5% [?]
