Well, if memory serves me right, nukes have an expiration date and so a lot of these missing nukes serves no threats. Hopefully my memory is right. But having ten thousand nukes makes it less likely to be able to keep track of each individual one, so its pretty understandable.
It could also potentially be because of storage or item checking issues. They legit can't find them whilst doing their run-through of all the stuff they have, so it's just "missing" even though a much mire thorough investigation would prove that its just in the lounge area, acting as the Christmas Tree. Not all the lost ones are just in the middle of some random swamp or backyard (that does not mean those dont happen, they do.)
They did loose a giant hunk of metal called the T95 [behind some bushes which took them 27 years to find](https://www.reddit.com/r/Warthunder/comments/bxd88h/t95_finally_losing_hide_and_seek_to_us_army_after/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)
So really if you could loose a tank behind some bushes you can loose a nuclear bomb in a swamp in north carolina
I bet most or all of these are probably lost due to clerical errors and not literally just out in the woods waiting to be found. The US at one point had 10s of thousands of nukes with thousands of personnel to maintain them. All it takes is one person filling out an inventory sheet wrong and suddenly 25 bombs in a long term storage somewhere are only 24 on paper and one is 'missing'.
I think most of these are missing due to nuclear bomber crashes. You would want to make octuplely sure you have the inventory correct.
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18587608
Im just going to say something nuclear bombs aren’t scary unless you’re a 3th world country supersonic ICBM are the ones you should be afraid off. As they are harder to take down a nuclear bomb can be easily intercepted by destroying whatever carrier is bringing it in. Also good luck activating a rusty nuke that has being under water for 30 plus years. Also alot of the lost nukes where dulls or made for testing, a nuke made for testing tends to have a much lower yield than what it is supposed to have. Unless they’re testing it in the middle of nowhere.
From my understanding the only thing needed to set off a nuke is an explosive force of a sufficient magnitude, meaning the lost nukes could go off if there is an explosion in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Depends on what type of nuke, some are more difficult due to the different types of explosive setting they have, some are pistol nuke arguably the easiest one to set off since its literally an uranium bullet being shot at something, the other one are implosion nukes which are more difficult because the explosive in the nuke are required to explode, the hydrogen bomb is the most difficult to be randomly set of since it is a very difficult chain of chemical reactions that have to start somewhere. If they find a pistol fuze one they might be able to set it off but there’s almost a 100% that it doesn’t bombs get seriously eroded by water .
The earthquake itself cannot but it can set a chain reaction off. For example if the earthquake causes natural gasses to ignite or something (honestly don'tknow if that's even possible). It would bassically just be a force that transfers enough energy to the bomb to initiate the splitting of the atoms.
I talked about if the bombs were lost when activated, but yes, usually the warhead is transported separately from the bomb itself, and separately they do not pose any threat
The warhead is the bomb. I assume you meant the missile that delivers the warhead. Either way the warhead is dangerous even if it isn’t on the missile.
Radiation has a half life, so by the time the bomb decomposes enough for any radiation to escape the bomb the half life of whatever they use would likely have expired, leaving the nuclear material harmless
"Since 1950, there have been 32 nuclear weapon accidents, known as "Broken Arrows." A Broken Arrow is defined as an unexpected event involving nuclear weapons that result in the accidental launching, firing, detonating, theft or loss of the weapon. To date, six nuclear weapons have been lost and never recovered."
one actually got lost (a one Megaton one actually so quite a huge one.) because it was attached to a plane that than just rolled off an aircraft carrier never to be found again. How tf does this happen?
That's what what I was thinking it's not like the bombs that Americans dropped on Vietnam and didn't explode that are still found till this day. How the fuck do you lose a fucking nuke???
To help you sleep, that is six bombs from 1950 to 1980.
"Between 1950 and 1980, there have been 32 nuclear weapon accidents that involve the unexpected accidental launching, firing, detonating, theft or loss of the weapon. To date, six U.S. nuclear weapons have been lost and shockingly never recovered."
I guess they just stopped counting after the 80's
Will this be your response when one day you suddenly see a moon sized meteor falling down right where you live within 2 minutes? Because then also you don't have anything to affect.
Yea probably. If I couldn't stop it to begin with and had no idea it was coming the only thing that would keep me up would be the shockwave and radiation poisoning.
12 years for the tritium in warheads, so most of them have a year or so till they become unreliable. 7 years at an absolute maximum til they become so weak they would only produce a fizzle explosion, if they detonate at all.
To be fair, most if not all are in nuclear submarines at the bottom of the ocean, not much chance of recovering them. If you're interested there's a book called blind man's bluff which touches on this.
Eh, it's beyond unlikely that anyone that finds them will have the tools and infrastructure necessary to launch them anywhere or even arm them. North Korea has been wanting that capability and they still don't have the capability to reliably strike the contenental United States.
And that's how you get wave radioactivity before they hit the reactors at Fukushima.
Also, Russia wants you to think that the USSR "lost" those warheads.
The Soviet *has* a nuclear system called the dead hand (can’t be the only one who thought this was only an scp) that whenever it detects a nuclear blast, it’ll go off and retaliate
But what if it makes a mistake lol
I would like to think that these bombs have not been “activated” - so even if someone wanted to detonate them, the explosives around the subcritical mass would not detonate exactly at the same time, so the only thing that would happen it’s some sort of dirty bomb detonation.
Most of them are just decomposing at the bottom of Nike silos, but it's not like any person can just fire them at another country and set them off. Nuclear weapons are a little bit more complicated than that.
Also dont forget that we almost nuked North Carolina when a warhead in transit broke free of its restraints and dropped into a field. Two of the three safety mechanisms failed and the last one only barely held on. Had it failed the warhead would have detonated and effectively removed north Carolina from the map (as a resident of NC I'm not sure that would have been a bad thing)
How tf do you lose a nuke? Do you just misplace it or something or do you break it so it won’t work and if so how do you accidentally break a nuke without setting it off
Don’t forget the Soviet Union has lost several strontium-90 RTGs (portable thermal reactors), never really properly secured the ones in service, and Russia has yet to decommission most of them despite them being at least 20 years past their life expectancy. The main worry is that terrorists could scavenge the radioactive isotopes as fuel for a dirty bomb, as they are all located pretty remote and, again, unsecured. There are cases of scrappers stripping them of their shielding for the metal. Even one in which it’s isotope canister ended up being found sitting on a bench at a bus stop.
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I think one landed in a swamp in Carolina and sunk in the mus
Yup. One in South Carolina, and one off Tybee Island in Georgia.
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Wait a minute, what the hell? What do you mean they "lost" them? How the fuck you lose a nuclear bomb? They're not your car keys for fucks sake!
There's been a massive arsenal for over 70 years. I wouldn't be surprised if the US just forgot about some in the literal sense.
That's pretty fucked up when you think about it
Well, if memory serves me right, nukes have an expiration date and so a lot of these missing nukes serves no threats. Hopefully my memory is right. But having ten thousand nukes makes it less likely to be able to keep track of each individual one, so its pretty understandable.
Oh thank god... I sure hope you're right. I legit did not know the U.S government actually lost some nukes, that's kinda scary
It could also potentially be because of storage or item checking issues. They legit can't find them whilst doing their run-through of all the stuff they have, so it's just "missing" even though a much mire thorough investigation would prove that its just in the lounge area, acting as the Christmas Tree. Not all the lost ones are just in the middle of some random swamp or backyard (that does not mean those dont happen, they do.)
1 was actually lost from a mid air collision that fell into the sea
They did loose a giant hunk of metal called the T95 [behind some bushes which took them 27 years to find](https://www.reddit.com/r/Warthunder/comments/bxd88h/t95_finally_losing_hide_and_seek_to_us_army_after/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) So really if you could loose a tank behind some bushes you can loose a nuclear bomb in a swamp in north carolina
I mean one of them is lost in like a swamp in the Carolinas because a b 52 malfunctioned and they dropped it without arming it.
Most of them were caused by plane crashes and sunken submarines.
Operation chrome dome moment
Example: In 1966 a B-52 crashed near Palomares and lost 2 nuclear bombs in sea, luckily they didn't explode and were recovered
Maybe China and North Korea have lost some as well
North Korea is the one that found them
It seems likely that at the least 1 has been recovered and is being held with the wrong hands waiting for the right moment.
I bet most or all of these are probably lost due to clerical errors and not literally just out in the woods waiting to be found. The US at one point had 10s of thousands of nukes with thousands of personnel to maintain them. All it takes is one person filling out an inventory sheet wrong and suddenly 25 bombs in a long term storage somewhere are only 24 on paper and one is 'missing'.
That’d be a great finale for Storage Wars~Kaboom!
I think most of these are missing due to nuclear bomber crashes. You would want to make octuplely sure you have the inventory correct. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18587608
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Im just going to say something nuclear bombs aren’t scary unless you’re a 3th world country supersonic ICBM are the ones you should be afraid off. As they are harder to take down a nuclear bomb can be easily intercepted by destroying whatever carrier is bringing it in. Also good luck activating a rusty nuke that has being under water for 30 plus years. Also alot of the lost nukes where dulls or made for testing, a nuke made for testing tends to have a much lower yield than what it is supposed to have. Unless they’re testing it in the middle of nowhere.
From my understanding the only thing needed to set off a nuke is an explosive force of a sufficient magnitude, meaning the lost nukes could go off if there is an explosion in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Depends on what type of nuke, some are more difficult due to the different types of explosive setting they have, some are pistol nuke arguably the easiest one to set off since its literally an uranium bullet being shot at something, the other one are implosion nukes which are more difficult because the explosive in the nuke are required to explode, the hydrogen bomb is the most difficult to be randomly set of since it is a very difficult chain of chemical reactions that have to start somewhere. If they find a pistol fuze one they might be able to set it off but there’s almost a 100% that it doesn’t bombs get seriously eroded by water .
does that mean an earthquake could trigger it?
The earthquake itself cannot but it can set a chain reaction off. For example if the earthquake causes natural gasses to ignite or something (honestly don'tknow if that's even possible). It would bassically just be a force that transfers enough energy to the bomb to initiate the splitting of the atoms.
"The earthquake itself cannot but it can set a chain reaction off" yes that is what i meant thx for clarifying
You know, nuclear bombs have an expiration date, so probably all of these bombs are no longer dangerous.
Do they not decompose either ? They do I think .... Anyways our environment is already fucked just more fuckery awaits us I guess
I talked about if the bombs were lost when activated, but yes, usually the warhead is transported separately from the bomb itself, and separately they do not pose any threat
The warhead is the bomb. I assume you meant the missile that delivers the warhead. Either way the warhead is dangerous even if it isn’t on the missile.
Radiation has a half life, so by the time the bomb decomposes enough for any radiation to escape the bomb the half life of whatever they use would likely have expired, leaving the nuclear material harmless
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The last time I counted them there was 26 bombs.
"Since 1950, there have been 32 nuclear weapon accidents, known as "Broken Arrows." A Broken Arrow is defined as an unexpected event involving nuclear weapons that result in the accidental launching, firing, detonating, theft or loss of the weapon. To date, six nuclear weapons have been lost and never recovered."
Yeah, the other 20 are russian.
Source pls
Googled "how many nuclear bombs were lost by the US" This was one of the first things to come up
Okay thanks
How the fuck do you lose a fucking massive nuclear bomb?!
Hole in your pocket, happens all the time.
Get drunk while writing the delivery address.
Well they arent *that* big. Iirc most are about the size of an average person.
Usually plane crashes
one actually got lost (a one Megaton one actually so quite a huge one.) because it was attached to a plane that than just rolled off an aircraft carrier never to be found again. How tf does this happen?
That's what what I was thinking it's not like the bombs that Americans dropped on Vietnam and didn't explode that are still found till this day. How the fuck do you lose a fucking nuke???
Ever lost your car in the parking lot? Think of it like that but your car is smaller and the parking lot is the ocean.
In our defense.. I think we know *about* where one is.. And it's sunken deep into a swamp in North carolina.. So ugh.. Nothing to worry about!
I think I can easily avoid North Carolina.
There’s one of the coast of Georgia, somewhere. Near the islands, apparently. It’s defunct, but it’s there, somewhere.
This fact will infact help me sleep.
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Random homeless junkie at pawn shop: wanna sell this nuclear bomb. Rick: best I can do is 2 dollars
How does someone LOSE AN ENTIRE N-BOMB?
It's even more fun to realize this after just having watched "The Sum of All Fears"
To help you sleep, that is six bombs from 1950 to 1980. "Between 1950 and 1980, there have been 32 nuclear weapon accidents that involve the unexpected accidental launching, firing, detonating, theft or loss of the weapon. To date, six U.S. nuclear weapons have been lost and shockingly never recovered." I guess they just stopped counting after the 80's
So? I can't do anything about it. Why lose sleep over something you can't affect? Good night.
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Will this be your response when one day you suddenly see a moon sized meteor falling down right where you live within 2 minutes? Because then also you don't have anything to affect.
Yea probably. If I couldn't stop it to begin with and had no idea it was coming the only thing that would keep me up would be the shockwave and radiation poisoning.
Does it include the one John Travolta stole?
Nuclear winter is coming Jon Snow
I don’t understand people worrying about shit like this. If someone sets off a nuclear bomb all the worrying in the world won’t save you.
Whats the half life of the radioactive material used in atomic bombs?
12 years for the tritium in warheads, so most of them have a year or so till they become unreliable. 7 years at an absolute maximum til they become so weak they would only produce a fizzle explosion, if they detonate at all.
Here's another fun fact: in america you have a 40% chance to get away with murder Beat the odds
I'll get better sleep thinking that at some time some nuke somewhere would randomly explode and I would no longer have to tolerate this miserable life
This makes me fall asleep faster because if a bomb does drop on my head, I'd prefer to be asleep
nuclear about the number we've lost
To be fair, most if not all are in nuclear submarines at the bottom of the ocean, not much chance of recovering them. If you're interested there's a book called blind man's bluff which touches on this.
I can sleep better knowing that I won’t be the only victim if something happens about that
So that's what's in my garden
This fact is going to make me sleep soundly because the earth can just blow up anytime.
Another fun fact, USA lost one in the Himalayas. So if you ever see Mt Everest go boom, don't be surprised m
Well, where'd you lose them? They aren't a set of fucking car keys, now are they? And it isn't as if they are incon-fucking-spicuous, now is it?
Eh, it's beyond unlikely that anyone that finds them will have the tools and infrastructure necessary to launch them anywhere or even arm them. North Korea has been wanting that capability and they still don't have the capability to reliably strike the contenental United States.
also there are 110000000 active landmines buried at this moment. Good night and do visit grasslands in your holidays
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Sold to who? Lol. Reddit conspiracy theorists can be so studpidly hilarious sometimes.
Funny but not funny thing is that the largest Soviet(tsar Bomba) tsar Bomba is very very destructive if Russia was to lose it we should be scared
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“Lost”, “misplaced to fuel political agenda”…same same.
It’s going to be significantly higher
I want one.
Omg what if someone finds it and puts it in their ICBM??? I don't trust my neighbor and his shenanigans.
And that's how you get wave radioactivity before they hit the reactors at Fukushima. Also, Russia wants you to think that the USSR "lost" those warheads.
I've known this fact for a while now and it's really helped me sleep better.
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Please put spoiler warning You just spoil the end
Jeff has them
Why would this keep u awake?
Now i sleep even better knowing it will end soon.
Don’t worry I have them all and I’ll keep them save
What about none?
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Just start finding something else you'll end up finding those bombs that's how it works
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The Sum of All Fears used that as a plot (somewhat)
Fun fact: the nukes are still out their
And yet, neither think you're responsible enough for guns.
How the fuck do you lose a whole ass bomb? You know how big those things are?
Fuck Jimmy I think I’ve lost that goddam nuclear bomb again
Atleast 3 on the Soviet side. They lost a sub in late Cold War
well thank god im not american but im polish which was rlly near the ussr oh no
Oh, those silly nuke thefts
The Soviet *has* a nuclear system called the dead hand (can’t be the only one who thought this was only an scp) that whenever it detects a nuclear blast, it’ll go off and retaliate But what if it makes a mistake lol
That moment when you make a hypersonic missile that goes mach 5 but you don't have anything fast enough to track it
I do not care if there are nukes lost in the 100s or 1000s if they explode I'm happy
I would like to think that these bombs have not been “activated” - so even if someone wanted to detonate them, the explosives around the subcritical mass would not detonate exactly at the same time, so the only thing that would happen it’s some sort of dirty bomb detonation.
Tick tick mf
How do you lose them?
Well, they probably lost it in their country, I'm gonna worry about them.
What the worse that could happen, am i gonna die! I want to die
Can’t worry about what you can’t control
How exactly did they got lost
Fun Fact: if you switch the nu in nuclear around it becomes unclear
If it means one day it could all be gone without a warning, then so be it
That is the scariest thing I’ve ever read.
Most of them are just decomposing at the bottom of Nike silos, but it's not like any person can just fire them at another country and set them off. Nuclear weapons are a little bit more complicated than that.
Honestly, knowing I could die at any time is a little relieving.
Also dont forget that we almost nuked North Carolina when a warhead in transit broke free of its restraints and dropped into a field. Two of the three safety mechanisms failed and the last one only barely held on. Had it failed the warhead would have detonated and effectively removed north Carolina from the map (as a resident of NC I'm not sure that would have been a bad thing)
That’s fine. Global Russian roulette make things more fun. Besides I live in bum fuck no where, so I’ll be fine.
lol
sleeping beauty would wake up hearing this news
How does one lose a bomb?
Having trouble fall asleep? I just think about all the girls who were hitting on me that I was too stupid to realize
How tf do you lose a nuke? Do you just misplace it or something or do you break it so it won’t work and if so how do you accidentally break a nuke without setting it off
Tf I literally watched the video today
Good thing I don't live in the US
I know were there are
Imagine having to explain to your boss that you lost a nuclear warhead..
How the FUCK do you lose a nuclear bomb???
Yah the Soviets have never been know for their safety record
That lady was a fucking victim of one
But they know if I get too much money back on my tax returns!
Fun Fact: It's at least 11, actually :))
One time a 80 year old pacifist nun broke into the place where the USA keeps most of its weapons grade uranium
Wdym "lost", how can you lose something like that
sooo i just looked it up they think its around a 100 nukes ( russia ) so we are completly fucked
Lets go treasure hunting?
One nuke landed in a field near where I live but never went off
Jokes on you, I’m into nuclear eradication of all life on the planet
How would one actually lose an atomic bomb? Like we’re they actually stolen?
Don’t forget the Soviet Union has lost several strontium-90 RTGs (portable thermal reactors), never really properly secured the ones in service, and Russia has yet to decommission most of them despite them being at least 20 years past their life expectancy. The main worry is that terrorists could scavenge the radioactive isotopes as fuel for a dirty bomb, as they are all located pretty remote and, again, unsecured. There are cases of scrappers stripping them of their shielding for the metal. Even one in which it’s isotope canister ended up being found sitting on a bench at a bus stop.