Diver accidently finds long-lost nuclear bomb
Looking for sea cucumbers off the coast of British Columbia, a Canadian diver instead found what appears to be a long-lost nuclear bomb released prior to the crash of an American B-36 in 1950.
The find has not yet been confirmed.
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Looking for sea cucumbers off the coast of British Columbia, a Canadian diver instead found what appears to be a long-lost nuclear bomb released prior to the crash of an American B-36 in 1950.
The find has not yet been confirmed.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
If true, that would be a Mark 4 nuclear bomb. It was dropped from B-36B 44-92075 after multiple engine failures doomed the plane. According to my reading the bomb was not armed with nuclear material.
There is a great site that lists all of the notable accidents involving these wonderfully massive airplanes.
http://www.air-and-space.com/b-36%20wrecks.htm
Lucky thing that it wasn’t a terrorist group or a rouge government finding it! Are there more lost nukes around for them to look for? I fear there are some here and there in the former Soviet union. I suppose that the heavy metals would be preserved and that what’s left of the complicated detonation mechanism could be very helpful for an aspiring nuclear terror government trying to reconstruct it. It is pretty scandalous that this thing has been available for anyone for so many decades (if this story is true at all).
EBay anyone? Anyone?
LOL!! I’m with D.K. Finders Keepers. Buyer responsible for transportation.
Send me some pictures. BYE!!
Isn’t there still one lost in the mud off somewhere off the South Carolina coast? And did any of the subs lost by us and the Russians have any nukes aboard?
It’s recommended one reads: Tom Clancy’s “The Sum of All Fears”.
Unknown if Clancy has some kind of view into the future but some items he has included in his novels, later (with some modification) ended up occurring.
If this is not a wake-up call, read: “Debt of Honor (1994)”, as I am convinced Osama bin Laden may have done just that, which possibly put this idea into his playbook.
Steve Earle asked: “And did any of the subs lost by us and the Russians have any nukes aboard?”
Yup. Read up on the Gomar Explorer. It is a fascinating story, badly told here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSF_Explorer
“Blind Man’s Bluff” is a good book which tells of some amazing underwater secret operations and incidents of the Cold War, including recovering lost H-bombs and the tale of the Glomar Explorer. It’s sobering to think of the even more classified info we still haven’t heard.
https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Mans-Bluff-Submarine-Espionage/dp/006097771X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=