It's not the only one missing in the Greater North America region. A few more are allegedly missing in other areas as well.

There was a thread discussing this as well some years ago. Been awhile since it was last mentioned though.

Makes one wonder about the threat of foreign or domestic terrorists locating such a device. A "Broken Arrow" could be all they need to create worse case scenario for Sit-X...

Now where the heck did I put that thermonuclear device, oh here it is.

Can you imagine the conversations around the water cooler?

Well, just because I lost 2 hydrogen bombs does not give them the right to not allow me advancement. If anything, it proves I am just as big a screw up as everyone else in government.

Oh the idiocy of government.

As bad as losing those 2 Trillion dollars Cheney mentioned. Oh well.

I saw the NGC show (or Discovery) about it...they claim to make periodic radiation tests of bottom silt check for leaks from it...it's a crazy story, that bomb is out there somewhere, just sitting there.

So after 50 years, they can't find it.
Sounds like someone beat them to it.

A Broken Arrow is when we lose a nuke.

A Rogue Spear is when terrorist have a nuke.

Do not get all worried though. These lost nukes are most likely not operational now. Consider rust and other natural erosive effects. Mechanical devices just do not last very long in the elements, especially if discarded and not maintained.

So, the chances of one of these long lost nukes being a relevant weapon are close to zero. Our mechanical devices just deteriorate and fall apart too quickly.

The only thing to worry about is plutonium as it is dangerous. There could be some contamination perhaps if the radioactive junk seeps out though.

You just don't lose an H-Bomb without having an agenda.

If you believe otherwhise and you like to think that the gov is simply incompitent then you are a ignorant.

Originally posted by colloredbrothers
You just don't lose an H-Bomb without having an agenda.

If you believe otherwhise and you like to think that the gov is simply incompitent then you are a ignorant.

Dude when you have 40,000 of them spread out all over the whole world, losing one actually becomes inevitable.

It is not incompetent or ignorant, it is a logical reality that is inevitable.

Let's see you keep track of 40,000 things for decades without losing a single one.

ohhh...that one? No worries, Juliet took care of it already.

I'm sorry...really sorry. I'm in a mood. I'll give myself a time out.

Originally posted by colloredbrothers
You just don't lose an H-Bomb without having an agenda.

So you are saying the government planned the F-86 to hit the B-47? What do you base that on?

...just, what if all those missing bombs are not "missing"?
What if they are planted?

Maybe all those nukes, H-bombs and who knows what, have been secretly planted on strategic locations?

Some believe they know where these artifacts are... do we really know?

Just my .02 tin cents.

Originally posted by endisnighe

A dirty bomb is a nuclear device that uses the inherent radioactivity to spread this component.

Correction.

A dirty bomb is a CONVENTIONAL device that uses radioactive material as a projectile to spread it over an area.

However dirty bombs are extremely ineffective at best.

Simply getting a petri dish with a virus on it and releasing it at a airport would be 1000x more devastating than the best dirty bomb.

There is a reason militaries do not develop "dirty bombs" because they are not actually good weapons, they are not efficient or effective, and they are extremely unpredictable as the results can vary depending on conditions *like wind or weather*.

Hell rather than digging up a long lost defunct nuke, why not just go dig in the ground and get your own uranium and process it yourself? It would be easier and faster that way.

I think the worst effects of a "dirty bomb" would probably be the conventional explosives used in it, rather than the material ejected as projectiles.

Also I want to add that a dirty bomb has a very small blast radius and only affects a small localized area. It simply does not cause "widespread" contamination given it was simply detonated in a populated area.


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So, just recently didn't a Top Notch fancy new Satellite detect 'underwater cities' in the ocean somewhere that some believe to be atlantis???

If they can see that, they can't locate a metal H-Bomb.....that rates about a 8.6 on my Bull-S#$-o-meter.

We can track a rover on the surface of Mars for 6 yrs, listen to a conversation between two arabs in a hotel room in the outter armpits of Afgan territory via Sattelite and the government can now scan thru my skivies to look for to much baby powder in the crack of my arse when I fly anywhere.

BUT....we can't find a 6ft Arab in the mountains or an H-Bomb in a couple 100 ft of water.....

Somebody slap the #e outta Hillary! (no that won't do any good and she's not resposible she just needs to be slapped)

Next you'll be telling me that they lost a miltary base somewhere in the navada desert......cheese and crackers!

For pity's sake.

What's even stranger than losing it, is knowing it's there and making no arrangements to retrieve it. How bizarre is that?

Originally posted by ladyinwaiting
For pity's sake.

What's even stranger than losing it,

why is that strange? You do know why it was lost, dont you?

is knowing it's there and making no arrangements to retrieve it. How bizarre is that?

Not very bizarre at all, they cannot find it in the hundreds of square miles it could be, buried in the silt