Thermonuclear bomb located off Georgia shores

[Full Otto]

Oops

http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/geor...clear-warhead/
Savannah A couple of tourists from Canada made a surprising discovery while scuba diving in Wassaw Sound, a small bay located on the shores of Georgia. Jason Sutter and Christina Murray were admiring the marine life of the area when they stumbled upon a Mark 15 thermonuclear bomb that had been lost by the United States Air Force more than 50 years ago.

[Schuetzenman]

Wow that's a real blast!

[alismith]

Well, I guess they didn't use a hammer to see if it were still functional...I didn't hear any explosion...

[Full Otto]

I'm guessing "short straw" got the job of disarming

[Dan Morris]

Broken Arrow................they've looked for this for many years!
Dan

[nfa1934]

Fake news website. Take a look at the other stories.

[Full Otto]

Fake news website. Take a look at the other stories.

Well shit you're right
http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/warhead.asp

I wondered about the pig farmer story
Sorry about that a guy at work sent it to me should have known he believes everything out there

[1 Patriot-of-many]

We have had a LOT of accidents involving nukes.

[Full Otto]

We have had a LOT of accidents involving nukes.

In an attempt to salvage this thread:

I've always found this "real" story pretty interesting

http://www.pbs.org/saf/1305/features/ship2.htm
In reality, the Glomar Explorer was built as part of an audacious CIA effort to retrieve the Golf. Codenamed "Project Jennifer," the plan was to use a giant claw dangling on the end of a three-mile-long tether to grasp the submarine and raise it into a "moon pool" - a large area open to the sea - built inside the Glomar Explorer. The submarine would then be searched for Soviet codebooks, communications gear, and nuclear warheads.

[studmuffin]

Of all the stupid things, they made the claws out of maraging steel. The strength looks great on paper, but at such cold ocean depths, way below the nill ductility temps. Those claws just snapped.

[N/A]

Of all the stupid things, they made the claws out of maraging steel. The strength looks great on paper, but at such cold ocean depths, way below the nill ductility temps. Those claws just snapped.

The engineers who designed the Titanic, maybe?

[rktman]

Cool, its about time someone found it.
I went on vacation to Tybee Island once and was surprised to hear that a lost nuke was nearby.

[N/A]

Cool, its about time someone found it.
I went on vacation to Tybee Island once and was surprised to hear that a lost nuke was nearby.

Man, you need to read the whole thread before replying.

[5.56NATO]

Isn't there one that was lost in an air crash in a swamp or bog in the south east?

STRAYS #4 & 5: Somewhere in a North Carolina Swamp

January 24, 1961. A B-52 carrying two 24-megaton nuclear bombs crashed while taking off from an airbase in Goldsboro, North Carolina. One of the weapons sank in swampy farmland, and its uranium core was never found despite intensive search efforts to a depth of 50 feet. To ensure no one else could recover the weapon, the USAF bought a permanent easement requiring government permission to dig on the land.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/17483...ns-us-has-lost

[rktman]

Man, you need to read the whole thread before replying.

Oops, didn't catch the FAKE part...

and good fucking day to you too!

[N/A]

Oops, didn't catch the FAKE part...

and good fucking day to you too!

Thank you...kinda grouchy today, aren't you?

[studmuffin]

The engineers who designed the Titanic, maybe?

Worse, at least the titanic engineers were honestly ignorant of how dirty their steel was with so many non-metallic inclusions in the rivets and plate. Some of Titanic's steel was terrible. But no one knew better back in 1910.

[Krupski]

Isn't there one that was lost in an air crash in a swamp or bog in the south east?

STRAYS #4 & 5: Somewhere in a North Carolina Swamp

January 24, 1961. A B-52 carrying two 24-megaton nuclear bombs crashed while taking off from an airbase in Goldsboro, North Carolina. One of the weapons sank in swampy farmland, and its uranium core was never found despite intensive search efforts to a depth of 50 feet. To ensure no one else could recover the weapon, the USAF bought a permanent easement requiring government permission to dig on the land.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/17483...ns-us-has-lost

I don't know if there are any "broken arrows" still out there not recovered yet, but if there are, chances are they were not armed.

Even if they were, by now they wouldn't be able to be set off.

A thermonuclear weapon is initiated by a conventional fission device, which in turn is triggered by a little golf ball called the "initiator" which is made of polonium and beryllium. The idea is that when the plutonium is compressed past critical mass by the implosion, the initiator is crushed, the beryllium and polonium mix together and spray out neutrons, initiating the fission reaction which, in turn, sets off the thermonuclear reaction.

The polonium in the initiator has a half life of about 6 months... after a few years it would be a "dead battery" and probably not start the fission reaction at all (or it would start the reaction late and cause a fizzle which could not initiate thermonuclear burning).

The only remaining danger from one of those bombs is getting blown up by the conventional chemical explosives inside. It would never "go nuke".

[Full Otto]

I still wouldn't hit it with a hammer

[alismith]

I still wouldn't hit it with a hammer

Hummm, I don't know....something like that would make a fantastic YouTube video! It would probably go viral, instantly.