Iran has "lost" a nuclear device

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Originally Posted by Martinjmpr

More than 6 I think, especially if you count the nuke subs that sank in the deep ocean. And of course those are only the ones that the government acknowledges having lost....

If you ever have time to kill google "lost nuclear weapons" and prepare for hours of entertainment.

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I was actually reading about this one last night at work. The innovation and risks taken back then were crazy by today's standards!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian

So yeah, they didn't lose a bomb. They lost some nuclear material.

The ionization smoke detectors in my home contain radioactive material. Oh noes!

"Nuclear device" has become slang for a bomb but there are lots of nuclear devices that have little or no weapon potential other than the radiation from the device itself.

IIRC the Soviets used some kind of nuclear generator on some of their lighthouses in the Arctic. It used some kind of radioactive material that decayed and produced heat in the process. Since these were unmanned stations in the middle of nowhere, and since there's no such thing as a Soviet EPA, they just let these things radiate and to hell with the environmental damage.