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Probably each of us has seen at least one action movie in life, where criminals are trying to steal nuclear weapons. In reality, everything is much funnier: such tough guys find it easier terrible bombs and rockets than stealing. The fact is that throughout history nuclear weapons production, a lot of it was simply lost, and meet …
United States Nuclear Disasters
It’s believed that it was the United States that lost the most nuclear bombs, because they often raised them on flight exercises during the cold war with the USSR. So, in 1950, the state of Minnesota crashed immediately three Air Force bombers, all carrying nuclear bombs. Found only two planes, the third – as if evaporated. Today many Ufologists believe that he was abducted by aliens. To prove it impossible, therefore it is believed that one missing bomber with the nuclear warhead is still “resting” somewhere and is waiting for its hours …
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Another nuclear bomb (30-kiloton Mark 6) American pilots of the B-47 squadron lost during a flight to England. Technician just checked the mount and … accidentally pressed the emergency lever reset. As a result, a nuclear explosion thundered in South Carolina, leaving a funnel of 9 meters in diameter. Locals were sure (they were told so) that they simply passed on their territory military training. Well, this bomb didn’t even hit the city …
Even more catastrophic could be the situation when in 1961, a plane with two hydrogen bombs literally fell apart in the air. One shell successfully landed in a swamp, and therefore did not explode. But the second bomb managed to open the parachute, however, when landing, three of the four fuses disconnected. As they say the world stood in the balance of a nuclear war …
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But even more often and even funnier, nuclear warheads were lost in the Navy. USA. Just imagine that in 1965 from the deck of an aircraft carrier “Ticonderoga” slid into the water attack aircraft with a hydrogen bomb – and here he drowned. A terrible combat charge and today lies on a five-kilometer the depths of the ocean, if it was not neutralized by the same mythical aliens.
Soviet Union nuclear disasters
As for the USSR, there is a lot of information about such disasters less, though do not exaggerate vigilance and accuracy Soviet pilots and technicians, just in the Soviet Union in this matter secrecy was manifested much stricter than in America. The absolute most of the information about such cases is still in Russia is under the stamp of special secrecy.
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But about the tragedies in submarines with nuclear warheads something is known. So, in 1968, the K-129 submarine sank with three ballistic missiles and two nuclear torpedoes. A little earlier in Bay of Biscay, another submarine lay at the bottom, which carried six nuclear torpedoes. And all this deadly burden is still then lies somewhere in the depths of the seas and oceans …
Know exactly how many nuclear weapons have been lost and where they are now “waiting” for his appearance on the stage, we simply have not been given. Will hope for better…
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