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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?"
To Florida, and blow it up.
Election problems, anthrax, hurricanes... That state is nothing but trouble!
Why don't you just put the plans for a nuclear weapon on the internet.
Oh wait...
No, I'd rather see it used on India to combat the offshoring problem.
"Forget the engineers." -Carly Fiorina, briber of MIT Technology Review.
Set the unmanned sub after it, and remove the uranium core. Using the cutting torch may prove to stimulate high ratings on the webcam/Discovery channel taping of the event!
I'd watch!
Tell me again who's the real winner when it takes a 5 billion dollar nuclear aircraft carrier to deploy a 20 million dollar plane flown by a pilot with a million dollar education, dropping a ten thousand dollar bomb just to kill some Iraqi kid hiding in a hole with a $20 russian surplus rifle?
It wouldn't be so hard, except we aren't allowed to kill anybody except the guy with the rifle (of course he has no cares about who he kills). We could easily get the job done with cheaper technology and firebombing the entire city into a pile of ashes. Ironic, we spend billions on defense to kill less people.
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As an open-minded American, I lately find myself struggling with a wave of anti-islamic sentiment
Gee, I wonder why? Could it have anything to do with all the recent major attacks being caused by believers in Islam? What about Iraqi islamic leaders openly advocating killing american soldiers? I'm more educated than most, and understand that the Koran doesn't preach violence of any kind, but considering all problems that have been caused by islamic fundamentalists, I've turned over to the school of "nuke `em till they glow, then shoot them in the dark"!
At the risk of sounding crass, I wonder if those Iraqi fighters realize the price we've paid in American lives and dollars to protect their civilian populations.
I'm sure they're real grateful. Of course, you could have LEFT THEM THE FUCK ALONE, but hey, what do I know?
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The military forces are killing innocent iraqi people.
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The hypocrisy stinks. Think about how many times you've heard the USA going on about making sure the evildoers don't get nukes... while being the only nation to have ever used nuclear bombs against civilians.
The only people who could afford to get it safely, craft other bombs, and move them would be terrorist from the mid-east, or Russian mob.
I owuld like you to take a lok at all violent terrorist actions. After that, I think the mid-east thing is a safe comment.
are they the only ones? No, but they are by far the largest group. Probably 90%+
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More nefarious than the designs the USA have? Why, Sir, I would say that is hardly possible. Remember, we are talking about a police state which has a policy of starting wars, colonialism, assassinations, torture, and other crimes against humanity.
Well they don't necessarily have to have nefarious designs, they just have to lack it and want it, not everyone who wants to build nuclear weapons wants to blow people up with them, some of them just want in on the game.
Especially if they are threatened by a nuclear armed state.
That said, some of them are bloody loonies
Some of the "bloody loonies" already have both the weapons and delivery systems. Also AFAIK no nuclear armed state has provisions for keeping nutcases out of high political office.
Pacifist commie pinko freak
"WWII-era America wasn't particularly pacifist."
Well, yeah. We were fighting a two-front war. Soviets didn't (unless you count those last days). Brits didn't. France didn't. We did.
The entire mindset of a nation gets changed when you declare war during more-or-less diplomatic (peace) talks and then promptly bomb the crap out of a harbor.
I'm not saying the 1930s were hunky-dory quiet for the US, but geez, it became them or us, even down to the final hours before peace was agreed to by Japan, because that was THEIR mentality.