Theformidable nuclear arsenal of the UShas misplaced some of its weaponry, losing its atomic bombs to the ocean depths - for anyone to discover.
AsDonald Trumpthreatens to unleash "Death, Fire and Fury" on Iran, anxieties grow once more surroundingnuclear powersin the Middle East.
The US has adopted the position that if it cannot locate their missing bombs, or "Broken Arrow" incidents, then their adversaries cannot either. To this day, the US has a total of six missing nuclear warheads out of 32 documented Broken Arrow accidents.
Given that the detonation of any single one of these warheads could annihilate a city and kill millions - it appears this could pose a significant problem.
One incident in 1958 witnessed a B-47 fully armed Mark 15 hydrogen bomber near Tybee Island release its weapon following a mid-air collision. The weapon was never retrieved despite initial assertions it was a dummy, according to National Interest, reportsthe Mirror US.
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The B-47 was transporting a 7,600-pound Mark 15 hydrogen thermonuclear bomb. The Mark 15 had an explosive yield of 3.8 megatons, 190 times more devastating than the Fat Man bomb, which flattened Nagasaki and compelled Imperial Japan's surrender.
The F-86's wing was shattered, but the pilot ejected himself safely whilst the B-47 was damaged and the pilot feared the bomb could explode.
Therefore, the pilot jettisoned the Mark 15 into the waters of Wassaw Sound, near Tybee Island.
Source: Daily Express :: World Feed
