Posted: 5/18/2015 10:53:42 PM EDT
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I've wanted to go search for this for SO many years. Only difference is I wouldn't have given it back.
http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/georgia-amateur-divers-find-long-lost-nuclear-warhead/ The federal and state authorities were well-aware that a nuclear warhead had been lost in the area in the 1950's and had never been recovered, but no efforts had been done for years to recover it. It was lost on the night of February 5, 1958, when a B-47 Stratojet bomber carrying the 7,600-pound hydrogen bomb on a simulated combat mission off the coast of Georgia collided with an F-86 Saberjet fighter at 36,000 feet of altitude. The collision destroyed the fighter and severely damaged a wing of the bomber, leaving one of its engines partially dislodged.
The bomber’s pilot, Maj. Howard Richardson, was instructed by the Homestead Air Force Base in Florida. to jettison the H-bomb before attempting a landing. Richardson dropped the bomb into the shallow waters of Wassaw Sound, near the mouth of the Savannah River, Sigh. 
EDIT: HAHA! It was a HOAX!!! Snopes to the rescue! |
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Living just a few miles from the drop site, this interests me.
How do you lose a 7600 lbs steel object that's also radioactive? They say they've never attempted to recover it, but surely it can't be that hard to locate even with shifting sands and tidal muck...surely the steel alone would give a magnetic signature and the radiation.... surely muck can't hide that can it? 
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Living just a few miles from the drop site, this interests me. How do you lose a 7600 lbs steel object that's also radioactive? They say they've never attempted to recover it, but surely it can't be that hard to locate even with shifting sands and tidal muck...surely the steel alone would give a magnetic signature and the radiation.... surely muck can't hide that can it? It's probably not leaking radiation... There are a lot of things that have magnetic signatures. |
| there have been at least five government expeditions I know of to find that thing (including the original attempt immediately after the crash). The last one I'm aware of was about 2002-ish (IIRC). It's so deeply buried in the mud off the coast that I honestly don't think it'll ever be found, short of major tectonic upheaval and/or the loss of about a third of our ocean's water. |
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Living just a few miles from the drop site, this interests me. How do you lose a 7600 lbs steel object that's also radioactive? They say they've never attempted to recover it, but surely it can't be that hard to locate even with shifting sands and tidal muck...surely the steel alone would give a magnetic signature and the radiation.... surely muck can't hide that can it? More than likely not radioactive. SAC rules at the time forbade flying exercises with a live weapon. Instead, it probably had lead instead of plutonium, to simulate live weapon weight/balance. |
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Radiation doesn't 'leak'.
The active materials would probably stay in the case when it augered in. There would be a radioactive signature, but the problem is that the energy ranges don't travel far in water. Add to it the probability it is under a few feet of silt, and until Davy Jones decides to give it up, it's gone. |
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More than likely not radioactive. SAC rules at the time forbade flying exercises with a live weapon. Instead, it probably had lead instead of plutonium, to simulate live weapon weight/balance. Quoted:
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Living just a few miles from the drop site, this interests me. How do you lose a 7600 lbs steel object that's also radioactive? They say they've never attempted to recover it, but surely it can't be that hard to locate even with shifting sands and tidal muck...surely the steel alone would give a magnetic signature and the radiation.... surely muck can't hide that can it? More than likely not radioactive. SAC rules at the time forbade flying exercises with a live weapon. Instead, it probably had lead instead of plutonium, to simulate live weapon weight/balance. It was a war reserve casing, but the physics package was not installed. I also live in the local area and can't get people to understand there is no nuclear bomb sitting out in Wassaw Sound. Parts of a nuclear weapon are out there, but it cannot achieve a nuclear yield. The local news runs an investigate report on it at least once a year and they keep digging up the same, unqualified, clueless fuck as their "expert". 
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