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U.S. Air Force Finds No ‘Significant’ Radiation in Hunt for Long-Lost Atomic Bomb Off Georgia Coast
The U.S. Air Force has found no indication of the presence of a nuclear bomb lost in 1958 when it tested for radiation off the Georgia coast, the Associated Press reported yesterday (see GSN, Sept. 30, 2004). Retired Air Force pilot Derek Duke searched privately for the bomb and reported detecting radiation last year near Tybee Island. That led to an official government investigation in September. Government tests, however, did not match radiation levels reported by Duke, Col. James DeFrank, the Air Force deputy director of public affairs, stated in a letter supplied to AP. “Since the interagency team did not find the ‘significant’ radiation levels Mr. Duke’s team reported, the focus shifted to the arduous task of analyzing data to determine what the samples did contain,” DeFrank wrote. A final report on the government study is expected to be released this month, AP reported. Duke expressed surprise at the results of the government search. “There’s no question in my mind that the day we reported those readings, they existed,” he said (Russ Bynum, Associated Press/Macon Telegraph, April 12).
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