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This is what news should be if it ever went off iy could kill people far as Alanta Ga for the coast of GA and SC they should find that bomb it is 4 time the power they dropped on Japan and just wonder if it started radiation we would be dead before they new it. I say the Arm Forces should be looking this is news

The Case of the Missing H-Bomb: The Pentagon Has Lost the Mother of All Weapons

By Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch. Posted May 16, 2009.

60 years have passed since a damaged jet dropped a hydrogen bomb near Savanah, Ga.—and the Pentagon still can’t find it.

Things go missing. It’s to be expected. Even at the Pentagon. Last October, the Pentagon’s inspector general reported that the military’s accountants had misplaced a destroyer, several tanks and armored personnel carriers, hundreds of machine guns, rounds of ammo, grenade launchers and some surface-to-air missiles. In all, nearly $8 billion in weapons were AWOL.

Those anomalies are bad enough. But what’s truly chilling is the fact that the Pentagon has lost track of the mother of all weapons, a hydrogen bomb. The thermonuclear weapon, designed to incinerate Moscow, has been sitting somewhere off the coast of Savannah, Georgia for the past 40 years. The Air Force has gone to greater lengths to conceal the mishap than to locate the bomb and secure it.

On the night of February 5, 1958 a B-47 Stratojet bomber carrying a hydrogen bomb on a night training flight off the Georgia coast collided with an F-86 Saberjet fighter at 36,000 feet. The collision destroyed the fighter and severely damaged a wing of the bomber, leaving one of its engines partially dislodged. The bomber’s pilot, Maj. Howard Richardson, was instructed to jettison the H-bomb before attempting a landing. Richardson dropped the bomb into the shallow waters of Warsaw Sound, near the mouth of the Savannah River, a few miles from the city of Tybee Island, where he believed the bomb would be swiftly recovered.

The Pentagon recorded the incident in a top secret memo to the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. The memo has been partially declassified: “A B-47 aircraft with a [word redacted] nuclear weapon aboard was damaged in a collision with an F-86 aircraft near Sylvania, Georgia, on February 5, 1958. The B-47 aircraft attempted three times unsuccessfully to land with the weapon. The weapon was then jettisoned visually over water off the mouth of the Savannah River. No detonation was observed.“

Soon search and rescue teams were sent to the site. Warsaw Sound was mysteriously cordoned off by Air Force troops. For six weeks, the Air Force looked for the bomb without success. Underwater divers scoured the depths, troops tromped through nearby salt marshes, and a blimp hovered over the area attempting to spot a hole or crater in the beach or swamp. Then just a month later, the search was abruptly halted. The Air Force sent its forces to Florence, South Carolina, where another H-bomb had been accidentally dropped by a B-47. The bomb’s 200 pounds of TNT exploded on impact, sending radioactive debris across the landscape. The explosion caused extensive property damage and several injuries on the ground. Fortunately, the nuke itself didn’t detonate.

The search teams never returned to Tybee Island, and the affair of the missing H-bomb was discreetly covered up. The end of the search was noted in a partially declassified memo from the Pentagon to the AEC, in which the Air Force politely requested a new H-bomb to replace the one it had lost. “The search for this weapon was discontinued on 4-16-58 and the weapon is considered irretrievably lost. It is requested that one [phrase redacted] weapon be made available for release to the DOD as a replacement.“

There was a big problem, of course, and the Pentagon knew it. In the first three months of 1958 alone, the Air Force had four major accidents involving H-bombs. (Since 1945, the United States has lost 11 nuclear weapons.) The Tybee Island bomb remained a threat, as the AEC acknowledged in a June 10, 1958 classified memo to Congress: “There exists the possibility of accidental discovery of the unrecovered weapon through dredging or construction in the probable impact area. … The Department of Defense has been requested to monitor all dredging and construction activities.“

But the wizards of Armageddon saw it less as a security, safety or ecological problem, than a potential public relations disaster that could turn an already paranoid population against their ambitious nuclear project. The Pentagon and the AEC tried to squelch media interest in the issue by a doling out a morsel of candor and a lot of misdirection. In a joint statement to the press, the Defense Department and the AEC admitted that radioactivity could be “scattered” by the detonation of the high explosives in the H-bombs. But the letter downplayed possibility of that ever happening: “The likelihood that a particular accident would involve a nuclear weapon is extremely limited.“

In fact, that scenario had already occurred and would occur again.

That’s where the matter stood for more than 42 years until a deep sea salvage company, run by former Air Force personnel and a CIA agent, disclosed the existence of the bomb and offered to locate it for a million dollars. Along with recently declassified documents, the disclosure prompted fear and outrage among coastal residents and calls for a congressional investigation into the incident itself and why the Pentagon had stopped looking for the missing bomb. “We’re horrified because some of that information has been covered up for years,“ said Rep. Jack Kingston, a Georgia Republican.

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before I go..walkerscranger…please quit arguing with alwaysknew…we can see they have no common sense, just bitterness against heir own issues. Be the better person..just let em sit in the corner and revel in their ignorance for an issue they have not clue about. Just go out and do your job the way you have been doing it. So again adios….Remember Highways or Dieways, the choice is yours….HAPPY MOTORING!!

Come on people, everyone has gotten so far away of the story line on this does everyone know why you are fussing with each other? Yes everyone has proven that no one is perfect, everyone has made the point that every job has its benifits no matter what it is, police, cook at the local pizza inn, or a friend at wal-mart. The entire point of this was that the officer did not ticket the agent while he was stopped, no matter even if the president was in the car. The only reason I even made a comment here was the fact the governor was in the car and was not even driving, why even bring this up. And the Greenville police let him off with no ticket, why is it fair for him to go and ticket ANYONE after he has let them go? Everyone here stop bickering on the wspa web site and exchange e-mail addresses or phone numbers if yall wanna fight. I just hope everyone has a good day.

happy…I’m sorry fo the delay, been spending time with the family. As far as CWP’s go, I’m gonna have to agree with walkerscranger on this, I don’t care if they have a CWP or not as long as they are legit and let me know if they have it and where. It’s the criminal that will conceil the weapon and not tell ya about it. And I do not work those areas you listed. And just to clarify something..being that Salter can’t get on here and comment to anything regarding this situation. He and I have had numerous conversations about his idealogy on gun control. I will say this..he isn’t for taking guns away…assault weapons yes…but he’s for enforcing the gun laws we currently have and having the prosecutors go after the max to the violators and criminals who possess weapons illegally. Someone on here earlier was bashing him for his wanting tough gun laws…well, I’ll say this in January of this year he responded to a wreck, the fella a 69 year old man was highly intoxicatd on alcohol and morphine. When he arrived he was met by the fella with a 38 cal. pistol. The fella pointed te weapon at him and threatened to kill him. Prior to his arriving this fella pulled the gun(which was a family heirloom) on 2 women who stopped to help him. He threatened the black lady that he was gonna kill her and used racial epithets toward her. Long story short…Salter only officer on-scene had a good shoot opportunity if there is such a thing…he retreated back until back-up arrived. Ultimately him, another Trooper, and three Deputies subdued the man with a taser after he threw the gun away and pulled a knife instead. Before this incident this fella was a law abiding citizen…alcohol and drugs made him a criminal and the gun empowered him further. So…just for a little understanding….

thanks for the reply getitright at least you not skeered and by the way if you work union,chester,york or cherokee county you probably give me a ticket before but i will say that from most of the officers that have given me a ticket i have been given a warning at least as many times not a ticket every time, guess yall can tell when somebody to broke to pay one sometimes huh?by the way you need to tell the ones that dont have their weapons on them that they dont need the permit it they not gonna use it,the way the world is now it should never be left at home even going home has its risk now with the way drugs has people steeling and house breaking,should be put on with your pants, mine is thanks for the reply