WMD...We Have Our Own Just Sitting...The Tybee Island H-Bomb
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WMD...We Have Our Own Just Sitting...The Tybee Island H-Bomb
We didn't really need to go to Iraq to find possibe WMD's we have one sitting off the coast of Georgia.
A short trailer from The Science Channel....America's Lost H Bomb
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We didn't really need to go to Iraq to find possibe WMD's we have one sitting off the coast of Georgia.
A short trailer from The Science Channel....America's Lost H Bomb
Lots of water has flowed under the Bull River Bridge since the hydrogen bomb was dropped a few miles down the road near Tybee Island.
The bomb, described as a hundred times more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima, Japan during World War II, was intentionally jettisoned by a U. S. Air Force B-47 bomber on Feb. 8, 1958.
Government agencies have conducted searches for the bomb--the most recent just over a year ago--and a half dozen private efforts have been conducted, but the weapon has never been found.
The bomb was released after the B-47 was severely damaged in a mid-air collision with an Air Force F-86 Saberjet fighter during a military training exercise.
Col. Howard Richardson, the bomber’s pilot, dropped the 7,600 pound Mark 15 nuclear bomb in an effort to save his plane. crew and area residents after deciding to try to land the badly crippled aircraft at Hunter Air Field.
Richardson, during our interview with him at his home just outside Jackson, Miss., said the runway at Hunter was undergoing repairs at the time and he feared that if he hit its raised end when he attempted to land, “the bomb might shoot through the plane like a bullet.”
He alerted Strategic Air Command officials of his intention to drop the weapon, then released it over Wassaw Sound before receiving a response. He said the response came later, approving the bomb drop but directing him to jettison it 20 miles out at sea.
Richardson brought his B-47, one engine dangling from its partially demolished wing, in for a safe landing at Hunter and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his extraordinary flying feat.
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*We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti
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*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
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