Mystery of lost US nuclear bomb

Mystery of lost US nuclear bomb

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The United States abandoned a nuclear weapon beneath the ice in northern Greenland following a crash in 1968, a BBC investigation has found.


As well as the fact they contained uranium and plutonium, the abandoned weapons parts were highly sensitive because of the way in which the design, shape and amount of uranium revealed classified elements of nuclear warhead design.

But eventually, the search was abandoned.

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There's a nuclear bomb somewhere under the Greenland ice. This is the Territory of Denmark. Has the ice melted by now? The serial number of the bomb is 78252. If nobody have found it, it's still there. The americans were looking for it but couldn't find it. They kept it secret for Denmark. They say the missing nuke can reveal classified elements of its design. Should not get into the wrong hands.

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lost US nuclear bombs there is more then one.


13 February 1950
A B-36 en route from Alaska to Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, Texas, developed serious mechanical difficulties, complicated by severe icing conditions, leading to the world's first nuclear accident. The crew headed out over the Pacific Ocean and dropped the nuclear weapons from 8,000 feet off the coast of British Columbia. The weapons' high-explosive material detonated on impact, but the crew parachuted to safety.

10 March 1956
A B-47 with two nuclear weapons aboard disappeared over the Mediterranean Sea after flying out of MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. An exhaustive search failed to locate the aircraft, its weapons, nor its crew.

28 July 1957
A C-124 Globemaster transporting three nuclear weapons and a nuclear capsule from Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to Europe experienced loss of power in two engines. The crew jettisoned two of the weapons somewhere east of Rehobeth, Del., and Cape May/Wildwood, New Jersey. A search for the weapons was unsuccessful and it is a fair assumption that they still lie at the bottom of the ocean.

5 February 1958
A B-47 carrying a Mark 15, Mod 0, nuclear bomb on a simulated combat mission from Homestead Air Force Base in Florida collided with an F-86. After three unsuccessful attempts to land at Hunter Air Force Base in Georgia, the B-47 crew jettisoned the nuclear bomb into the Atlantic Ocean off Savannah. The Air Force conducted a nine-week search of a 3-square-mile area in Wassaw Sound where the bomb was dropped, but declared on April 16 that the bomb was irretrievably lost. The bomb was rediscovered in September 2004. but not recovered.

24 January 1961
A B-52 bomber suffered structural failure and disintegrated in mid-air 12 miles north of Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, NC, releasing two hydrogen bombs. Five crewmen parachuted to safety, while three others died when the aircraft exploded in mid-air. The bombs jettisoned as the plane descended, one parachuting to earth intact, the other plunging deep into waterlogged farmland. To this day, parts of the nuclear bomb remain embedded deep in the muck. The area is off-limits, and is tested regularly for radiation releases. More information can be found at the Broken Arrow: Goldsboro, NC site at www.ibiblio.org/bomb/.

5 December 1965
An A-4E aircraft accidentally fell overboard off the USS Toconderoga, with the loss of pilot LTJG D.M. Webster and a nuclear weapon. The incident, which occurred in the Pacific Ocean approximately 200 miles east of Okinawa, was not reported by the Department of Defense until 1981.

22 January 1968
A B-52 crashed 7 miles south of Thule Air Force Base in Greenland, scattering the radioactive fragments of three hydrogen bombs over the terrain and dropping one bomb into the sea after a fire broke out in the navigator's compartment. Contaminated ice and airplane debris were sent back to the U.S., with the bomb fragments going back to the manufacturer in Amarillo, Texas. The incident outraged the people of Denmark (which owned Greenland at the time, and which prohibits nuclear weapons over its territory) and led to massive anti-U.S. demonstrations. One of the warheads was reportedly recovered by Navy Seals and Seabees in 1979, but a recent (August 2000) report suggests that in fact it may still be lying at the bottom of Baffin Bay.

4 June 1962 The Bluegill nuclear test, designed to detonate a nuclear device in the atmosphere, was aborted 10 minutes after launch when the missile tracking system failed prior to nuclear detonation. The nuclear device was lost at sea.


Greenland is no longer a territory of denmark

Star for you Anned..That was real interesting to read what you posted..where did you find that information?..Im wondering why to this day they cannot locate some of the misplaced(lol) warheads?..Do you think that they are too deep to locate or deemed not a priority?

Can someone please direct me to a website that lists all the USSR, Soviet Unions, and Russias last weapons please?

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If Greenland is no longer a territory of Denmark, then who runs the country? The US Military???

I'm curious, where the heck did you get all these info about the crashes from?

I guess you forgot to mention some other few crashes. The alleged mysterious B-50 bomber that was said to occour in 2001 with some "WWII looking" crew members

ufocasebook.com...

and

The Palomares B-52 crash near Spain in 1966, also carrying 4 nuclear weapons

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www.5min.com...

I'm wondering that usually the US Military should had been able to learn from the B-52 Spain crash in 1966. So what caused the B-52 crash at Thule in 1968? Good question. My theory are as follows:

1) Natural technical problems, or

2) Maybe it was a UFO that shot beam of light at the B-52, that caused the fire inside the B-52 before it crashed.

I'm guessing 1), but i'm just saying that what if a UFO shot a beam of light at it? Well, UFOs shut down nuclear warheads in the US and in the Soviet Union in the 1960'ies...

In the 1980'ies two F-14 Tomcat fighters were "Swallowed" by a UFO near Puerto Rico and were never seen since

www.cavinessreport.com...

The B-50 bomber crash at Thule in 2001 sounds odd, but what if it really happened? I find it intriguing

Originally posted by ANNED
Greenland is no longer a territory of denmark

They're autonomous, but are still part of Denmark. Some day soon, they may get independence from Denmark.

In 1979 Denmark granted home rule to Greenland, and in 2008 Greenland voted to transfer more power from the Danish royal government to the local Greenlandic government. This became effective the following year, with the Danish royal government in charge of foreign affairs, security (defence-police-justice), and financial policy, and providing a subsidy of DKK 3.4 billion (US$633M), or approximately $11,300 per Greenlander, annually.

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