Sunday, February 5, 2012

Still Another Lost H-Bomb

February 5, 1958:
 A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered. The Tybee Island B-47 crash was an incident on February 5, 1958, in which the United States Air Force lost a 7,600-pound (3,400 kg) Mark 15 hydrogen bomb in the waters off Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia, USA. During a practice exercise the B-47 bomber carrying it collided in midair with an F-86 fighter plane. To protect the aircrew from a possible detonation in the event of a crash, the bomb was jettisoned. Following several unsuccessful searches, the bomb was presumed lost somewhere in Wassaw Sound off the shores of Tybee Island.
So Iran would be a threat to the world if they had one nuclear bomb, but we were seemingly crashing a plane or dropping the damn things every couple of years back in "the good ol' days"?  Sure, I'd prefer a world where Iran doesn't have a nuke, but is it a good idea for us to have them?  Wow.

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