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- steamypoop, on 11/10/2008, -1/+38Now why on earth would they simply announce that they have a lost nuke near Greenland?
- wettestwillie, on 11/12/2008, -1/+29It's in Megaton. It's okay, I disarmed it.
- dougbot, on 07/14/2009, -0/+28I think it's a combination of the Freedom of Information Act and enough years for the information to be released, as well as some good ol' fashioned intrepid reporting. With enough time we'll have ourselves another Tom Clancy-ish novel + movie.
...speaking of the Freedom of Information Act, has the Kennedy stuff been released yet?... and when it is released, how reliable will it be if reports of these nukes claim the 4th one was "destroyed" when it really wasn't?
brb knock at the door. - Scopitone, on 11/12/2008, -0/+27*gasp* a Broken Arrow!
- notoneofus, on 11/12/2008, -0/+23Relax. The people you're worried about don't knock.
- sealink, on 11/12/2008, -0/+21Nuclear weapons can't achieve criticality without certain conditions being met, and it's not at all like the demon core, where it might achieve criticality on its own due to some weight shifting or plates touching. If it were going to go critical, it would have already done so, since water functions in civilian reactors as both a reaction control and a neutron reflector (and seawater being a great environment in which to do that.)
We are far more likely to experience problems resulting from the inadvertent contamination of the ocean with radioactive materials as the casings for the plutonium and uranium corrode in the saltwater. - Dragular, on 11/12/2008, -0/+15Admit it. You've been waiting since '96 to use that phrase in the proper context, right?
- inactive, on 11/11/2008, -0/+12Yeah, except Eskimos live in Alaska, not Greenland.
- TheJimid, on 11/11/2008, -1/+11Yea because the terrorists can't afford scuba gear or anything........
- vandernderyid, on 11/12/2008, -2/+11"Mystery of lost US nuclear bomb"
Scariest headline ever? - marshallpeck, on 11/12/2008, -1/+9You just wanted to say criticality
- statuescrumble, on 11/12/2008, -2/+9I think North Korea should work on getting electricity to more than one city before they get nukes.
- mikbunn, on 11/11/2008, -0/+7Eskimos are imaginary like leprechauns.
- inactive, on 11/12/2008, -0/+7***** that dude a whale probably ate it already
- craighoxton, on 11/12/2008, -0/+6"We have a John Woo movie"
- Scopitone, on 11/12/2008, -0/+6You have no idea
- warragul, on 11/12/2008, -0/+6Since this appeared on the BBC site someone has been busy submitting it to all the user-supported news sites.
Multiple times. - Seann7656, on 11/12/2008, -1/+7Your jokes really are that bad
- palehorse864, on 11/12/2008, -0/+5Wait a minute, you've lost another bomb?
- ginogrz, on 11/12/2008, -0/+5I sense a James Bond movie coming on...
- Homerr, on 11/12/2008, -0/+5I wonder how many similar Soviet incidents there actually were.
- inactive, on 11/12/2008, -2/+7Alarmists. The whole lot of ya...
I mean one nuclear bomb floating around...what's the worst that could happen? - habfan29, on 11/12/2008, -0/+4"Mystery of lost US nuclear bomb solved in (Insert city you'd expect to be destroyed )!" I think would be a touch more worrisome to me...
- SuperCujo, on 11/12/2008, -0/+4It was a loose bomb...
- inactive, on 11/12/2008, -0/+4i dont how true your comment is but it made me spit some dr.pepper on the bill for my car insurance lol
- SovereignZ, on 11/12/2008, -1/+5There are at least 92 publicly acknowledged live nukes lost at sea.
http://www.didyouknow.cd/nuclear.htm - GawtMilk, on 11/12/2008, -1/+5"As well as the fact they contained uranium and plutonium". Uranium is hard to enrich but easy to build into a bomb, and plutonium is easy to find but hard to build into a bomb. Either way, the raw substance found in these lost bombs could be harnessed into a device or sold to someone who could harness it.
By the way, I just noticed that the BBC News video player's audio control goes to "11". - vp0ng, on 11/12/2008, -0/+4I blew it up.
I blew it up real good. - morninglorii, on 11/12/2008, -1/+5Qwantz references this today: http://www.qwantz.com/comics/comic2-1370.png
- inactive, on 11/12/2008, -0/+4I'm sure it's not armed, so it couldn't really be detonated. I assume...
- Akairenn, on 11/12/2008, -0/+3http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_Thule
Signs point to no. - sockpuppets, on 11/12/2008, -0/+3The keebler elves are a lost Eskimo tribe.
- CKR600, on 11/12/2008, -0/+3Only thing that could scout and potentially remove it would be a nuclear submarine so... CATASTROPHE AVERTED!
- neonoodle, on 11/12/2008, -0/+3It's not lost, they just took it so they could bury it somewhere in Iraq to be found later.
- inactive, on 11/12/2008, -1/+4Ever see that episode of Gilligan's Island and the WWII naval mine?
- AWBoy666, on 11/12/2008, -0/+3Maybe because this is OLD news? The US has lost a bunch of nukes:
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/10031
And this one was almost certainly damaged in the crash and would certainly be inoperable by now. IE: NOT A BIG DEAL. - mmittimm, on 11/12/2008, -0/+3http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/faqs.html#sea ...
2017 - inactive, on 11/12/2008, -0/+2ya plus you replied to yourself which is just weird...
- andrew2150, on 11/12/2008, -4/+6if the us can loose billions of dollars; why not a nuclear bomb.
- donkeydrop, on 11/12/2008, -1/+3Inaccurate. A few "pieces" of a bomb, are "maybe" on the bottom of the ocean. Finding and recovering them would be harder than building a bomb from scratch, plus there's only 4 or 5 Russian nuclear subs that have gone down with a nuclear warhead and that would be easier to find.
- cowboy86, on 11/12/2008, -1/+3 The Autobots will obviously take care of this.
- inactive, on 11/11/2008, -0/+2they also live in siberia.
- drexl, on 11/12/2008, -0/+111? Nice.....crank that ***** up man!
- NCSD, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1seriously, suck a dick
- inactive, on 11/13/2008, -0/+1I saw a documentary on these guys who found a plane that has crashed on Greenland in WW2. It took then like a decade, and tens of millions of dollars... apparently stuff left on the ice cap just get sucked in unpredicably - the plane they were looking for was a mile away from the crash site and quite deep in the ice, after just 40 years or so. And utterly destroyed. I guess the point is it wouldn't be very easy to find the nuke plane... it'd be pretty noticeable if someone was trying.
- palehorse864, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1Forget that. This is the plot to the next Batman film. Patrick Stewart is Mr. Freeze! Or Richard Marcus who played Raines on The Pretender
http://www.antoniogenna.net/jarod/vseason6/cast/14 ... - booksnmore4you, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1Uh oh, now the Freepers will be trying to get their hands on it.
- inactive, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1"I don't want to set the world on fire."
- shylove, on 11/13/2008, -0/+1And we can't trust these 3rd world countries to keep their nuclear weapons secure??
If you see one in some Inuit flea market someday it might spark a flee for all !!! - cowboy86, on 11/13/2008, -0/+1 You sound even more foolish each time you post. How doesn't a persons intelligence have anything to do with their political beliefs? To believe something you must understand, to understand one must have a certain level of intelligence. This might be too much for you to understand. Being as intelligence and understanding are synonymous I believe I made my point. Unless you just go around believing everything you can't comprehend. For someone to say something about someone on the internet that they don't even know shows your level of stupidity.
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