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Lost Nuclear Bomb Found Off Georgia Coast?

Posted by michael on from the always-the-last-place-you-look dept.

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?"

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  1. boom by ZeekWatson · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Hope it don't go boom while they're recovering it....

  2. Someone set us up the bomb! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Lame, I know, but it had to be said here.

  3. Three Letters by tekunokurato · · Score: 0, Redundant

    S
    C
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    Read jack phelps dot net
  4. DUKE NUKEM! by supertbone · · Score: -1, Redundant

    DUKE NUKEM!

  5. Weapon Of Mass Destruction by guard952 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    So that's where Sadam's been hiding them!

  6. Re:disappointed in US government by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Nice quote on 'eye for an eye'... but here is the thing...

    An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
    - Mahatma Ghandi

  7. Obvious sign by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    A man named Duke found a nuclear bomb.

    "DUKE NUKE'EM"

    It's a sign that Duke Nuke'em forever is on the horizon.