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that missle was never close to going anywhere it was a false alarm from eol sensors. also the nuke loss in canada could never have been detonated. it was just
by leeoniya 11y ago
that missle was never close to going anywhere it was a false alarm from eol sensors.
also the nuke loss in canada could never have been detonated. it was just a bunch of uranium that was dropped.
cant really compare with a fully armed 4 megaton nuke that fell out of a plane. for reference, Hiroshima yeild was 21 kT.
that's 21,000 vs 4,000,000
- sandworm101 11y agoBut that core in Canada is basically the opening scene from The Sum of All Fears. Every other device was retrieved asap. This one .. who knows.
- mikeash 11y agoSeveral nuclear weapons have been lost over the decades. There's one off the shore of Georgia that's never been found, one in Puget Sound, and a couple more. If you count submarines, there's also the wreckage of the Scorpion which contains two unrecovered nuclear warheads.
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- igravious 11y agoHoly guacamole. Hey Mike, do you (or anyone else) have links to save me searching? Thanks in advance! Morbid fascination/curiosity...
- mikeash 11y agoI double-checked my memory by going here and doing a cmd-F on "lost," "weapon," "warhead," and such: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accid... This includes a lot more than just incidents where weapons were lost, but that may be a feature for you rather than a bug.
- igravious 11y agoThanks Mike...