Jesus christ, sometimes the media is REALLY REALLY dumb. Well, all the time.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/09/29/lost.bomb.ap/index.htmlSAVANNAH, Georgia (AP) -- Spurred by what appear to be unusual radiation readings offshore, the U.S. government is sending a team of 20 scientists to try to find a hydrogen bomb lost off the Georgia coast in 1958.
Scientists from the Pentagon and the National Labs met on Wednesday with Derek Duke, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel who has searched for the missing 7,600-pound nuke over the past five years.
Duke has detected what he believes are unusual radiation readings in Wassaw Sound near Tybee Island.
A B-47 bomber dumped the H-bomb into the Atlantic Ocean 46 years ago after the plane collided with a fighter jet during a training flight. Navy divers searched the shallow, murky waters near Tybee Island for nearly 10 weeks before declaring the bomb irretrievably lost.
The bomb became one of 11 "Broken Arrows" -- nuclear bombs lost during air or sea mishaps, according to U.S. military records.