Atomic bomb nearly exploded over North Carolina in 1961, report says Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/09/2...-report-says/?intcmp=latestnews#ixzz2fZzisRGF Only one of four safety switches prevented disaster!
I know they said just released. But I Remember hearing the story a couple years ago on a late night radio show.
Exactly. Not really news. It comes up now and then. The incident isn't really a secret in eastern NC. Only difference is the AP picked it up this time because a book was written about it and published a press release looking for free publicity. Looks like it worked.
Wasn't there an H bomb lost somewhere in South Carolina or Georgia that's never been found? Suspected to be buried somewhere deep in a marsh or river?
Yes. There was a plane, a B-36 iirc, that had to dump one after a mid-air collision or engine failure or something. It's in the water a few miles offshore, supposedly. I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to find being that it's radioactive, which makes me think that maybe it actually went somewhere like Israel or something to be used in a different weapon.
Isn't that the situation where the bomb was in water so deep that retrieving it was so dangerous that they decided to leave it where it is? It sounds familiar.
You're referring to the USS Scorpion. It went down in the Atlantic. Though they know where the wreckage is. It'd just be impossible to remove the two warheads from the wreckage though. Plus there's the reactor that went down with it as well.
