Comments on: Cashing in on Nuclear Testing

By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:55:00 +0000

I’ve been to Nagasaki. It’s pretty weird. There are a few bars that won’t let Americans in, but it’s like that in Japan anyway. If you go to the Museum of course everyone looks at you strangely. There’s a whole one sentence on a plaque that sort of mentions Pearl Harbor. I haven’t been to the Pearl Harbor memorial, but I wonder if it’s as one-sided. Not that an A-bomb = an air strike, I just wonder what exactly they mention.

By: Carl Bylander

Carl Bylander — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:20:00 +0000

May 22, 1957, a B-36 bomber carrying a nuclear weapon accidentally dropped its cargo about 4 miles south of the control tower at Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, N.M.
The plane was carrying the weapon ( 10 megaton Mark 17) from Biggs Air Force Base in Texas to Kirtland for maintenance.the plutonium pit of the weapon had been removed for transport, although the pit was still on the plane. And as usual, the bomb was designed not to explode on impact, but rather through a signal from a trigger device.

By: Kev in GA

Kev in GA — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:32:00 +0000

According to the Brookings Inst. there are 11 lost nuclear warheads. One being the Tybee Bomb off the Coast of Georgia. Georgia supposedly has the 2nd largest number of warheads of any state aprox 2000 only behind New Mexico.
The “little boy” was dropped on Hiroshima and the “fat man” on Nagasaki.
The last tidbit from Mrs. Williams 9th grade science class. Some things you can’t forget.

By: Ronnie

Ronnie — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:59:00 +0000

Tybee Island bomb still missing…..seen any glowing fish?

By: tiffany

tiffany — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:19:00 +0000

lol! nice one vickey!

By: Derek Burress

Derek Burress — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:09:00 +0000

Brickcityman: The bomb was dropped in Fargo, NC out near Goldsboro and Seymour Johnson AFB.

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:19:00 +0000

I’d be curious to know what answers people incorrectly gave to the question. Berlin? Baghdad?

By: Vickey

Vickey — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:47:00 +0000

The Tybee bomb

By: Leeshka

Leeshka — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:22:00 +0000

Yay! I love to be smart!
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By: brickcityman

brickcityman — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:22:00 +0000

I read an article in Equire a while back about a Nuclear bomb that was accidentally dropped from a plane somewhere over the US. One of the south-eastern states I believe.

Apparently it augered into a swamp and was the source of a lot of headaches… But of course it didn’t detonate.

It was a really great read.