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Official U.S. Team to Look for Long-Lost U.S. Bomb
A team of 20 scientists from the U.S. Defense Department and the Energy Department’s national laboratories met yesterday with a retired Air Force officer as part of a new effort to recover a hydrogen bomb lost off the coast of Georgia in 1958, according to the Associated Press (see GSN, Sept. 14). The scientists met with retired Air Force Lt. Col. Derek Duke, who has searched for the missing weapon for the past several years. The bomb was lost when a B-47 bomber collided with a fighter jet during a training flight, according to AP. Duke has said that he has detected unusual radiation levels in Wassaw Sound near Tybee Island. The team is expected today to go “to Wassaw Sound where Mr. Duke believes he knows where the bomb is located,” said Air Force Lt. Col. Frank Smolinsky. “They will take radiation readings and samples back to the national labs ... and see if they can confirm or not confirm the possible presence of the bomb in that location.” The bomb is one of 11 reported U.S. “Broken Arrows,” nuclear bombs that were lost and never recovered (Associated Press/Washington Times, Sept. 30).
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