Did you know there's a missing nuclear bomb?

[lightbulb27]

A B-52 in 1968 crashed on Greenland ice sheet, detonating conventional explosives shedding plutonium over the area. One bomb, remained missing.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=did+b52+crash+on+greenland+spreading+nuclear&t=chromentp&ia=web

[FreyaRed]

It's more than just one. As Ukraine, and other former Soviet republics gave their nuclear arsenals back to Russia, 17 warheads disappeared somewhere. Most of them small 330kt Tritium boosted, Pu-Lithium6 thermonuclear warheads which are small enough to be transported in cars or cruise missiles. In comparison Fat man dropped on Nagasaki hat a yield of 21kt and was 4700kg heavy.
It's probably the number 1 reason Russia didn't use tactical nukes in Ukraine

[lightbulb27]

you are saying ukraine probably has some?

[FreyaRed]

1980-90 produced high yield fission-fusion warheads with weight 250-350kg. I don't think someone stole them just to get a little bit Plutonium, they were sold as entire nuclear devices.

[purplepoppy]

Not surprised. A few years ago someone in the army told me a tonne of stuff goes missing. It gets signed out, bounces to another part of the country and so on. People lose track of how many bullets they shot, missiles fired etc, forms don't get filed in right and so on. When you consider how much land the military uses and the size of their storerooms the logbooks are never going to balance.

[lightbulb27]

yea Id wonder how much in the UK is wasted $ and resources. in USA, it's horrific... been going on long time. they waste...

[DryGermanGuy]

There are several atomic bombs missing. It’s rather frightening, actually.
https://www.atomicarchive.com/almanac/broken-arrows/index.html

[lightbulb27]

Good grief!
I don't think that's all of them...

[BCRanger10]

This sounds like a job for Ethan Hunt!

https://www.youtube.com/embed/GQHONHGaWjo

[lightbulb27]

yes a good script for him...

[BCRanger10]

That literally was the script for Fallout, which is tied with Rogue Nation as my favorite of the series.

Well... kind of. Plutonium cores, but still.

[lightbulb27]

Cool! Tom can do anything. He's nuts and very skilled!

[BCRanger10]

And he's actually good at his job too.

[najekim]

There's another one missing off the coast of Georgia from the 60's if memory serves.

[lightbulb27]

that should make some exciting day for some unlucky fishermen...

[najekim]

Nah. They say it's probably buried in 50-100 feet of sediment. That's one of the reasons they say why they still can't find it.

[jahaims]

Wait until you learn about all of the nuclear material countries have lost over the years

[aaron13547]

There is more then one. funny how things like that can get "lost" isn't it...

[lightbulb27]

yes, that's scary. the ecological damaged cauased by an explosion like that on an ice sheet... one wonders... might be "good bye to Florida".

[Chazmatazz269]

It’s not missing.
I know exactly where it is.
😂😂😂

[NathanDavis]

as everyone else already said... there's a few under a sleeve somewhere out there

[genericname85]

is it really "missing" or is recovering it just not realistic for anyone so it's intentionally left there?

[Kelley1]

Accidents happen. It is not a big deal.

[Anonymous]

I didn't not know this. Shrug. I don't learn American history

[AgentG111]

Yes and it's definitely more than one!

[RavVid]

Yeah I've heard of this but know little on it.

[exitseven]

I had one in my basement.

[Anonymous]

Israel has it.

[beefcakebradybatson]

It's in some girl's bra !!!

[888theGreat]

And you think someone got other bomb?

[Pterodon]

Don’t care

[noohair]

Yes...