Lost Nukes

[Ranger353]

So I have been watching videos on YouTube lately about lost nuclear bombs from the 1950's and 1960's. Seems that many of those classified documents are now coming up for public release and I'm a little surprised at the number of nuclear weapons that were lost at sea and never recovered. It is kinda scary that some of those items are considered ticking time bombs because eventually the sea water will erode the casing material away and expose the plutonium core to the sea.

I wonder why there hasn't been a more consolidated effort to find and recover so many devices, especially given the environmental impact of such a potential disaster?

[Chad4000]

holy fuck.. as if we didnt have enough to worry about ranger!!!!! lol jk

[Guylee]

holy fuck.. as if we didnt have enough to worry about ranger!!!!! lol jk

Speak for yourself. I HATE feeling safe and secure.

[ruthabagah]

No worries it's safe... That's what the gvt told the sailor after castle bravo in Bikini....Or when they told people it was ok to picnic and camp in the desert near st George Utah, after the Harry test in the 60'.... No worries, the GVT knows better.

[TFOGGER]

Giles Prentice: A Broken what?
Secretary Baird: Broken Arrow. It's a Class 4 Strategic Theatre Emergency. It's what we call it when we lose a nuclear weapon.
Giles Prentice: I don't know what's scarier, losing nuclear weapons, or that it happens so often there's actually a term for it.

[fly boy]

subscribing. This is peaking my curiosity.


Do you have a link to what you are reading/seeing?

[ruthabagah]

subscribing. This is peaking my curiosity.


Do you have a link to what you are reading/seeing?

Here is one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Ty...-air_collision

Here is another one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_Br...bia_B-36_crash

And another one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965_Ph...a_A-4_incident

and the Thule incident http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Th...ase_B-52_crash

Finally: I do remember reading about one or two french nukes lost in the mediteranean, and a british one somewhere in the south atlantic.

Of course, we are not even talking about he russian ones...

[BushMasterBoy]

$500,000 reward if you find one.

[Ranger353]

Just do a search on YouTube for "Lost Nukes" and watch. Some of the videos are interestingly scary, based on the fact that so many are missing (lost) and no one seems to be overly excited about it.

[BuffCyclist]

Side note, White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

I used to live near there and would drive through WSMR on the way to the airport (Alamogordo to El Paso). There is a sign on the side of the highway that states in short "do not step off highway, unexploded ordnances, etc".

Last Friday, some scrap metal thieves (2 men, 2 women) decided they wanted to steal some metal on the WSMR property. So, they got out of their cars, crossed the barbed wire fence and apparently exploded one of those unexploded ordnances the 20ft x 40ft sign was talking about. They had to shut down the entire highway.

Article I'm linking on the issue but didn't read lol: http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_2...injured-two-el

eta: Okay okay, not a side note it was totally off topic. Sorta. Government leaves behind explosives that I'm they have a log book of exact locations and civilians (albeit thieves) were injured. A nuke would be a lot more serious...