Lost nuclear bomb possibly found

[rhino 0]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/09/13/lost.bomb/index.html

An Air Force investigation concluded in 2001 that the bomb is probably harmless if left where it is.

[Frenchy68 0]

That would explain some Georgians glowing in the dark...

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An Air Force investigation concluded in 2001 that the bomb is probably harmless if left where it is.

Harmless unless someone else discovered its location and recovered it.

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[rhino 0]

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Well, hey, even if it doesn't have the plutonium trigger it is still 400 pounds of explosives and an unspecified amount of enriched uranium. Pretty damn good dirty bomb sitting right there just waiting to be dug up. Or hey, just blow it up in place. Nawww, probably more valuable just to recover it and have the threat of using it.

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[Zenister 0]

hmmm

Q: what Tom Clancy novel used a 'lost' nuclear device to provide material for a terrorist attack??

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[billvon 2,991]

>what Tom Clancy novel used a 'lost' nuclear device to
>provide material for a terrorist attack??

Come on. That was a novel; a work of fiction. Next thing you know, you're going to claim that a terrorist is going to fly a 747 into the Capitol Building.

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Q: what Tom Clancy novel used a 'lost' nuclear device to provide material for a terrorist attack??

It wasn't even an orginal idea then . . . try "Thunderball" by Ian Flemming.

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[Zenister 0]

wasnt that one stolen though not stumbled apon? i'm not sure its been a while since ive seen/read that one.... hmmm have to see if i still have it..

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Yes, in Thunderball they (there were two of them) were stolen, but it's still the same basic idea. Nukes fall into the hands of terrorists. Slightly different motivation in the case of SPECTER though.

I still think it's not out of the realm of possibilty that a terrorist organization would try to recover the bomb though.

I wonder if we have SEALs (or something similar) guarding it underwater?

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[billvon 2,991]

>That would explain some Georgians glowing in the dark...

And as I recall, it's our policy to invade countries that might allow nuclear materials to fall into the hands of terrorists. Can we invade Georgia? It would be like 1861 all over again!

[nacmacfeegle 0]

"I wonder if we have SEALs (or something similar) guarding it underwater? "

With 61 of these bad boys missing......

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Well, I wouldn't expect them to guard the ones that are -missing- (how do you guard something if you don't know where it is?), just the ones we know the locations of, yet do not wish to risk actually recovering.

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[nacmacfeegle 0]

Sorry Paul, I was being facetious.

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[kallend 2,027]

"The United States lost 11 nuclear bombs in accidents during the Cold War that were never recovered, according to the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.

An estimated 50 nuclear warheads, most of them from the former Soviet Union, still lie on the bottom of the world's oceans, according to the environmental group Greenpeace."

Cool!

Tritium has a half life of 12.3 years, so that won;t be much of an issue.

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[mr2mk1g 10]

I believe you're looking for the answer: "Sum of all fears" involving a lost Israili nuke.

Q: Does anyone find it odd that they were "training" with a real nuke (albeit not "live"). It's still radio active and still contained 400lb of conventional explosives. Surely if there's no need for it to actually be live for the training - there's equally no need for it to be an actual nuke... just be sized and weighted accordingly.

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I believe you're looking for the answer: "Sum of all fears" involving a lost Israili nuke.

Q: Does anyone find it odd that they were "training" with a real nuke (albeit not "live"). It's still radio active and still contained 400lb of conventional explosives. Surely if there's no need for it to actually be live for the training - there's equally no need for it to be an actual nuke... just be sized and weighted accordingly.

I don't find it at all odd given the mindset of the times. Have you seen Dr. Strangelove?

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[nigel99 475]

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The United States lost 11 nuclear bombs in accidents during the Cold War that were never recovered, according to the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.

Jeez and the US critizes other nations for not protecting WMD's... To think of all the worry about Saddam letting WMD's into terrorist hands. With US ones there is no need to smuggle them in. Mind you with the right to bear arms - a texan somewhere has probably got them in his armament

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>That would explain some Georgians glowing in the dark...

And as I recall, it's our policy to invade countries that might allow nuclear materials to fall into the hands of terrorists. Can we invade Georgia? It would be like 1861 all over again!

If we know where it is, and we aren't real willing to recover it, I can't really see some terrorist sitting off the coast of GA for days trying to bring this thing up undetected.

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[kiltboy 0]

"The Sum of All Fears"

Watched it this past weeknd.

David

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Damn - it had ummm Ben Aflek - Morgan Freeman -

God! how i hated the movie version.... so many changes to the whims of political correctness it completely ruined the story...

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[billvon 2,991]

>If we know where it is, and we aren't real willing to recover it, I can't
>really see some terrorist sitting off the coast of GA for days trying to
>bring this thing up undetected.

I was actually kidding about restarting the Civil War.

[kiltboy 0]

Yeah the book was a lot better especially the way the President went to pieces. The whole affair with the National Security advisor added to the flavor of events with the decision making etc..

David