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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?"
Put it on ebay. ;)
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Clearly someone tried to nuke the whales, and then covered it up!
Gotta nuke somethin'!
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So THAT'S where I left it.
Please send it to the following address...
Err, maybe that's not such a good idea.
Who are you people? What? No, it's not mine.. It's engraved? I'm being framed. UNHAND ME YOU SCOUjsjcds,.......
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Dig it up;
Deal with the *zilla fish around it;
Put it in a concrete case then;
Dump it with the rest of the nuclear stockpile.
Alternativly, do studies on it regarding how effective the case was at protecting it.
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Fishing is good around that thing...
Look it's a GIANT TUNA! And it glows in the dark. And has 3 eyes.
On the one hand, a recovery would be expensive, dangerous, and probably unnecessary. On the other hand, if we leave it there... the terrorists win.
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SCO Headquarters.
Ebay? I'm sure it has a sentimental value to some people.
How much is the shipping and handling?
Sincerely yours,
Osama bin Laden
AHA! THAT'S where Saddam hid it.
If it is the bomb that Duke has found, the question now is what, if anything, should be done with it?
Utah would be a good spot.
and it was found off Tybee Island by retired Air Force Lt. Colonel Derek Duke...
... who forever shall be known as 'Duke Nukem'
Read the whole article and you'll see that there are over 50 nuclear bombs that were "lost" and just sitting out there.
The tons of enriched Plutonium sitting in Kazahkstan (sp?) are more easily acquired by terrorists than stuff lying on the bottom of the ocean.
Still, just letting it sit there and contaminate the fish isn't a good idea.
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Osama bin Laden: Hey, Ayman, whassup? check this out -- there's a nuke off the infidel American coast that we can blow up!
Ayman al-Zawahiri: Sorry, Osama, we can't do it; there's an international accord against it. We'll have to stick to strictly legal forms of terrorism, like hijacking airplanes and blowing up buildings.
OBL: Curses! Foiled again!
why use a bomb when we have missiles?
the Political Inquirer
Move it please.
Thank you,
A Concerned North Carolina Resident
Jay | http://oldos.org
Finally Bush found atleast some WMD....so what if its not from Iraq!!!
Nuclear bomb in 12ft of water and the gov. concludes in 2001 that it's better to just leave it there. But somehow I can't bring my nail clippers on the airplane.
Unfortunately, this weapon might not prove terribly effective against the kind folks at SCO.
LICK IT! LICK IT!
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
Since Slashdot's about as reliable as the Weekly World News, I can't trust a word you're saying. :)
And if it isn't the bomb, the question now is "WTF?!"
Give it to Saddam, to justify the war in Iraq.
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maybe a little offtopic, but does it scare anyone else how much these cats know about nuclear explosives and such?
you can't have everything, where would you put it?
Only special subs can go down that far and possibly nucular subs can survive that depth without getting crushed.
You had me until you said "nucular".
Get outta here, George!
Does it make you happy you're so strange?
> I'm curious now - given the materials necessary, how many slashdotters could construct a working nuclear weapon?
Easy - break the uranium up into small chunks, and search the Web for instructions on how to build a slingshot.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
tell me the real name of Constatinople,
Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
Are you saying it wasn't the Turks?
Knew there was some explanation for Zell Miller.
Hey! It DOES have those fifties tailfins! Man, I totally dig classic, er, bombs.
"The wise man proportions his belief to the evidence." -- David Hume
hardest to produce, but if you know the right people you can get some.
sincerly,
doc brown
the question now is: "what, if anything, should be done with it?"
Well, when the explosives squad finds a WW2 bomb out here, they tag on some extra explosives and just make it go boom.
That's one I'd like to watch..... From a different planet.
Pu is totally worthless nowdays, the US has about 18 tons of excess Pu that it would like to get rid of, the Russians likewise..
Worthless to the US and Russia who have dismantled a fair fraction of their nuclear arsenal. But very valuable to countries who need more electrical generating capacity and who are under threat of invasion by a larger country. Both of these are applicable to Iran.
We still want our plutonium back.
sincerely,
the Libyans