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Humanity has never been worse than the atomic bomb came up with. Accumulated nuclear charges are enough to destroy a planet several dozen times, although one is enough. Every they protect the atomic bomb so that God forbid what happens. Not explosion, just the release of radioactive filling threatens terrible environmental disaster. And while few think about the danger, threatening humanity from the bottom of the oceans.
Ocean dump of humanity
What do you think can be found at the bottom of the oceans and seas? Exotic underwater plants, previously unknown species of living species organisms? Of course. And also cans, glass bottles and the mass of other attributes of human civilization thrown away by it in the ocean is like a trash bin.
However, besides household garbage, “surprises” are stored at the bottom, constituting a direct threat to both humanity and the planet in whole. It’s about the “atomic gifts” of our civilization, resting at the bottom of the ocean. Like time bombs they lie under many kilometers of water and wait in the wings.
The dead nuclear submarines
April 10, 196 3 the American submarine “Thresher” went on transcendental depth and was crushed by hydrostatic pressure. 129 crew members remained at the bottom. The boat did not carry nuclear weapons, but the nuclear reactor still rests on 2.5 km deep.
May 21, 1968 for the last time contacted the Scorpion nuclear submarine. In October, using a deep-sea apparatus lying on A 3 km deep submarine was discovered. Nuclear reactor and two torpedoes with nuclear warheads still lie at the bottom Atlantic.
In 1970, the Soviet K-8 nuclear submarine was lost in the Bay of Biscay. Was there the atomic weapon on it is unknown, and two nuclear reactors – yes. 6October 1968 in the Atlantic sank the Soviet K-219 from 14 nuclear missiles and two nuclear reactors. April 7th The Soviet K-278 (Komsomolets) perished in the Norwegian Sea.
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In 2003, towed for disposal sank in the Barents Sea Russian K-159. In 2014, she was examined by a Russian and Norwegian scholars. The radiation level around the boat is within normal limits. Experts say that 20 years you can not worry, but two a dozen years will pass, and then what? Aviation also contributed contribute to the clogging of the oceans.
Gifts from the sky
February 13, 1950 (do not believe after that on the 13th day) the next engine from Alaska to Texas, the B-36, caught fire. Crew dropped an atomic bomb, and then he jumped out himself by parachute. IN In March 1956, a B-47 with two nuclear missiles disappeared over the Mediterranean Sea. bombs. In 1968, Americans lost off the coast of Greenland 4 atomic bombs, found and raised only 3.
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In 1958, the American B-57 off the coast of Georgia collided with a fighter. To reach the airfield, the crew got rid of the “ballast” – the atomic bomb “Mark 15”, 100 times more powerful than dropped on Hiroshima. Lost “Mark” for They searched for 10 weeks, but couldn’t find it, it still lies there, literally 10 km from the coast.
It is claimed that the Americans officially recognized the loss of 11 nuclear bombs! But no one knows how much they actually lost. After all even recognized ones are the result of the noise raised by the newspaper and witnesses, when it was not easy to not acknowledge what had happened impossible.
Were there any losses on the Soviet side? Surely there were, but about these even less is known. The problem is too curious Journalists in the USSR were able to solve quickly and efficiently.
Man himself grave digger
All of these “burials” were the result of accidents, often accompanied by human casualties, but what about cases, when a person for no particular reason, laziness or thoughtlessness deliberately lowered the atomic “slow-moving mines to the bottom actions”?
In 1968, an accident occurred on the K-27 submarine, as a result of which the boat was literally “saturated” with radiation. More than 10 years, the military puzzled what to do with a “dirty” boat. In 1981, the problem decided simply and without fancies: K-27 brought to the Kara Sea and flooded.
And I must say, this was not know-how at all. Already several decades of the USSR buried spent in cold northern waters nuclear reactors nuclear submarines and nuclear icebreakers. And it was considered normal of things.
And now about the main thing
Throughout the 20th century, a man with blunt stubbornness turned the World ocean into a nuclear repository. If the Earth’s nuclear burial waste is constantly watched by experts to exclude emergence the second Chernobyl, then there is no supervision over the sea burial grounds no.
Bombs cannot explode. But for decades, the bomb body and recessed nuclear reactors are gradually destroyed by corrosion, early or later, their deadly filling will fall into the environment. Water, algae, fish and animals living in the ocean.
Yes, water occupies 70% of the earth’s surface, it would seem that our planet several hundred poisonous square kilometers! Yes if The state of emergency will happen in the waters of the Arctic Ocean, it will affect minimum of people. But many “gifts” lie within a few km. from the densely populated coasts of Europe and America where fishing boats and there are more cruise ships than fish in the sea. In this case, the consequences of an emergency will be disastrous.
And the last one. Ownerless atomic bombs are constantly attracted to the attention of international terrorists. Difficult to steal nuclear bomb from a guarded base. And here lies to itself, take – I do not want. Experts say to get a lost bomb from the bottom of the ocean incredibly difficult. Huge amounts of money and special equipment are needed. It is beyond the power of many states, and already driven by international community of terrorists – and even more so. However in recent years the terrorists suddenly got rich. And if there is money, then they decide all other problems.
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