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Originally posted by FredT
Tecnical issues asside one has to wonder how many "mistakes" from both sides are lying on the ocean floor?
The United States lost 11 nuclear bombs in accidents during the Cold War that were never recovered, according to the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.
An estimated 50 nuclear warheads, most of them from the former Soviet Union, still lie on the bottom of the world's oceans, according to the environmental group Greenpeace.
Originally posted by William One Sac
An estimated 50 nuclear warheads, most of them from the former Soviet Union, still lie on the bottom of the world's oceans, according to the environmental group Greenpeace.
Originally posted by FredT
Originally posted by William One Sac
An estimated 50 nuclear warheads, most of them from the former Soviet Union, still lie on the bottom of the world's oceans, according to the environmental group Greenpeace.
From the article. Thats what they are admitting to anyhow.
US bomber has dropped an atomic bomb near to US shores, which is 100 times more powerful than that one dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. The bomb has fallen on sea bottom, at the distance of 10 km from Georgia State.
Its exact location is not known, -The Australian- writes declassifying 40-year-old secret documents of Pentagon. According to the newspaper, the bomb -Marc 15- which weighs 3450 kg was dropped from bomber B-47 Stratojet in 1958, after its collision with fighter F-86 during training flights near to Sylvania. Major Howard Richardson piloting the plane received command-s order to drop the bomb, otherwise he could not land.