3 Nukes That Are Still Missing Today #shorts
2,5943 Nukes that are still missing today. On February 13, 1950 during an exercise, a US Air Force B-36 bomber was en route to Texas from Alaska, when it developed engine trouble. Not wanting to have a crash with a nuclear warhead, the crew was ordered to drop its 30-kiloton Mark 4 bomb into the Pacific Ocean. Though the bomb didn't have the plutonium core necessary for an explosion, it still had a substantial amount of uranium. Then, on February 5, 1958, during another simulated combat mission, an Air Force B-47 bomber carrying a Mark-15 bomb collided with an F-86 Sabre. After multiple attempts to land, the crew was given the order to jettison the bomb. The bomb, which was dropped over Wassaw Sound near the mouth of the Savannah River, wasn't recovered. Another one was lost on December 5, 1965, when an A-4E Skyhawk, loaded with a one-megaton thermonuclear weapon, managed to roll off the deck of the carrier USS Ticonderoga CV-14 and fall into the Pacific Ocean. The pilot, aircraft, and bomb quickly sank into 16,000 feet of water and were never seen again.
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