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Lost Nuclear Bomb Found Off Georgia Coast?
securitas writes "Both CNN and ABC News report that a hydrogen thermonuclear bomb lost off the Georgia coast in 1958 may have been found. The 'Mark 15, Mod 0' nuclear bomb was jettisoned into the Atlantic Ocean off Savannah after a B-47 bomber and an F-86 fighter collided in mid-air. 'The 7,600-pound, 12-foot-long thermonuclear bomb contained 400 pounds of high explosives as well as uranium' and it was found off Tybee Island by retired Air Force Lt. Colonel Derek Duke,, who said that radiation levels were from seven to 10 times higher than normal. If it is the bomb that Duke has found, the question now is what, if anything, should be done with it?"
Like America? :-)
The symbolism of using an American nuke to make the material for its own nuclear device, dirty bomb, or whatever against the very people that built it would be just the kind of thing that Al Qaeda would love.
Yes, I'm a fan of irony as well. We build bombs to protect us from the people who use our bombs to kill us! Brilliant!
If an arab group or someone else with a chip on their shoulder got their filthy hands on it,
You mean like the current Bush administration??
I don't respond to AC's.
Oh, and the islamic leaders? America is occupying their country dumb fuck. If anyone tried to do that to you, you'd be fighting your damndest, but because we did it, it's ok?
If our President pulled a bloody coup, executing his political opponents in the House & Senate, then ran the USA as a dictatorship for a few decades... personally, I'd be damn glad if some country came in, overran his forces, setup a provisional government of my countrymen, then setup elections to replace their hand-picked government with a new, democratically-elected one. I wouldn't be blowing up their troops, I'd be cheering them on!
Why did I use that hypothetical? Because that's basically what Saddam Hussein did. It's difficult to continue calling it an "occupation", when we're turning control of the country back over to local forces & leaders as fast as we can (without simply leaving tomorrow, which might trigger an even bloodier battle for power).
And then the people I kill would get their death's avenged, and so on. It's like a hillybilly fued, but more deadly.
The only possible ways to stop this are for everyone to stop hating and start loving simultaneously, or for one side to obtain a very conclusive victory that completely demoralizes the enemy (like Hiroshima or the suicide of Hitler and capture of Berlin). We can wish for the first, but only the second option is possible.
Personally, I believe that we should make a very public treat to go nuclear if another terrorist attack happens to us. We can deliberately vague about our target, only specify that millions of Muslims will die a horrible death and they will have no one to blame but Al Queida, since they knew the price the Muslim world would pay. Turning Iran into a smoking crater would take care of their nuke program and send a powerfull message to Syria, et al.
I also believe in killing the fsck out of crazy ratbastards that have killed or are planning to kill me and my neighbors. Better that the money earned by the sweat of my brow, then taken by the government, goes to killing bad guys than to feeding lazy ones.
Sounds good. Why don't we spend $80billion+ going after terrorists like Al Queda instead of an impovorished (via our sanctions), oil-rich country that has not attacked or threatened to attack us.
"When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind." -- Bill Moyers