Did you see where I left my bomb?

Mark 15 hydrogen bomb

On this day, 53 years ago, the US Airforce lost a nuclear bomb.  I'm not joking.  Not only did they lose it, they never found it either!

The Tybee Island B-47 crash was an incident on February 5, 1958, in which the United States Air Force lost a Mark 15 hydrogen bomb in the waters off Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia, USA. During a practice exercise the B-47 bomber carrying it, collided in midair with an F-86 fighter plane. To prevent a detonation in the event of a crash and to save the aircrew, the bomb was jettisoned. 


Following several unsuccessful searches, the bomb was presumed lost somewhere in Wassaw Sound off the shores of Tybee Island. Local people don't seem to mind so much. Louie Williford a resident is not pondering the bomb. "I don't really think about it," he says. "If it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen. Ain't nothing I can do about it."........Ok.

But don't worry. This isn't the first bomb the US has lost. It's believed that up to 12 may be missing.  Seven of these were lost in the US. I wonder where the other 5 were? And we were worried about Iran getting nuclear missiles!