Still looking for that lost Mark 15 nuke out there?
That's So Savannah: Bomb at the beach remains hauntingly mysterious on Tybee Island
https://www.savannahnow.com/story/lifestyle/2021/04/14/what-happened-bomb-dropped-over-tybee-island-wassaw-sound-b-47-nuclear-radiation-thats-so-savannah/7190932002/
On February 5, 1958, an F-86 fighter jet had a mid-air collision with a B-47 bomber carrying a Mark 15 hydrogen bomb during a training exercise. The pilot of the F-86 managed to eject before his jet disintegration, and the damaged bomber managed to make a harrowing emergency landing at Hunter Army Airfield, but not before it jettisoned the 7,600-pound bomb into the waters around Wassaw Sound, so that it could lighten its load and prevent the bomb from exploding in the event that they crashed.
A 10-week search mission by 100 Navy personnel was unable to trace where the bomb fell.
There are conflicting reports as to just how catastrophically dangerous the bomb is. The initial claims by the government were that it contained a dummy trigger and didn’t pose a threat unless it was disturbed.
But, in 1994 a document was declassified that told a different story. According to 1966 Congressional testimony by then Assistant Secretary of Defense W.J. Howard to the U.S. Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, the lost weapon was a complete, fully functional bomb with a nuclear capsule. If that is the case, and the bomb does indeed contain a plutonium trigger, the resulting explosion would include a fireball with a radius of over a mile and thermal radiation for up to 10 times that distance.
In 2004, a private team led by retired Air Force Lt. Col. Derek Duke discovered high levels of radiation off of the tip of Little Tybee that aligned with description of where the bomb was possibly dropped, but a later investigation by the U.S. Air Force determined that the radiation came from natural deposits of monazite in the sand.
One theory floating out there is that the bomb was recovered by a Soviet submarine and that is why it has never been located.
In 2015, a satirical news site posted a phony story about a vacationing Canadian couple finding the bomb while scuba diving and it being finally retrieved. Alas, that is not true and it is still (probably) still out there. Whether the bomb was stolen by Russians or is buried under 15 feet of silt, it is probably best to let sleeping monsters lie.
Funny how they can find rings but no bones near them.
A crematory can burn hot enough to melt metals, but bone fragments still remain.
Israel-Hamas war Latest: Hezbollah Confirms Its Leader Has Died in an Israeli Airstrike
https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/israel-hezbollah-hamas-latest-mideast-28-september-2024/2024/09/28/id/1182082/
Smoke rose from Beirut’s southern suburbs Saturday morning and the streets were empty after the area was pummeled overnight by heavy airstrikes that Israel said killed multiple Hezbollah commanders, including leader Hassan Nasrallah.
The Lebanese militant group confirmed the death of its longtime leader, whose killing could dramatically reshape conflicts across the Middle East.
Attacks on Hezbollah targets by fighter jets continued into the early hours Saturday after the army said it told residents to evacuate three buildings it was targeting.
Hours before the strikes, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations, vowing that Israel’s campaign against Hezbollah would continue — further dimming hopes for an internationally backed cease-fire. Netanyahu abruptly cut his United States visit short and returned to Israel.
More than 720 people have been killed in Lebanon since the conflict escalated Monday, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry.
The United Nations says the number of those displaced by the conflict from southern Lebanon has more than doubled, with more than 211,000 people now displaced. At least 20 primary healthcare centers have shut down in hard-hit areas of Lebanon, the U.N. Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said.
Hezbollah began firing rockets into northern Israel in support of Hamas after it stormed into Israel, sparking the Israel-Hamas war. Top Israeli officials have threatened to repeat the destruction of Gaza in Lebanon if the Hezbollah fire continues, raising fears that Israel’s actions in Gaza since Oct. 7 would be repeated in Lebanon.