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Every once in a while, a high reading of radioactivity off the coast of Tybee Island, Georgia, sends the US government scrambling to look for a nuclear weapon that's likely hidden 13 to 55 feet below the ocean and sand, buried in the seafloor.
Since 1950, the US military has been involved in 32 "broken arrow" incidents, where they lost or dropped nuclear weapons or other issues, like fires, were involved. In his book "Command and Control," Eric Schlosser wrote that in 1957 Air Force planes unintentionally dropped a nuclear weapon once every 320 flights. Coupled with the high rate of…
A nuclear bomb is still missing. In 1958, an Air Force B-47 jet dropped a Mark 15 near Tybee Island, Georgia. Despite searches, it's still missing.
A nuclear bomb is still missing. In 1958, an Air Force B-47 jet dropped a Mark 15 near Tybee Island, Georgia. Despite searches, it's still missing.
This January, as global tensions rose worldwide, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved the Doomsday Clock — which symbolizes how close they believe humankind is to destroying itself — to 90 seconds to midnight, the closest the symbolic device has been to worldwide catastrophe. (click here to see the position of the Doomsday Clock over […]