Lost Nuclear Bomb Found Off Georgia Coast? 820
securitas writes "Both CNN and ABC News report that a hydrogen thermonuclear bomb lost off the Georgia coast in 1958 may have been found. The 'Mark 15, Mod 0' nuclear bomb was jettisoned into the Atlantic Ocean off Savannah after a B-47 bomber and an F-86 fighter collided in mid-air. 'The 7,600-pound, 12-foot-long thermonuclear bomb contained 400 pounds of high explosives as well as uranium' and it was found off Tybee Island by retired Air Force Lt. Colonel Derek Duke,, who said that radiation levels were from seven to 10 times higher than normal. If it is the bomb that Duke has found, the question now is what, if anything, should be done with it?"
lol... (Score:4, Funny)
Put it on ebay. ;)
Nuke the whales! (Score:5, Funny)
Gotta nuke somethin'!
Ah ha! (Score:5, Funny)
Please send it to the following address...
Err, maybe that's not such a good idea.
Who are you people? What? No, it's not mine.. It's engraved? I'm being framed. UNHAND ME YOU SCOUjsjcds,.......
sweet! (Score:2, Funny)
Deal with the *zilla fish around it;
Put it in a concrete case then;
Dump it with the rest of the nuclear stockpile.
Alternativly, do studies on it regarding how effective the case was at protecting it.
Bet the... (Score:5, Funny)
Look it's a GIANT TUNA! And it glows in the dark. And has 3 eyes.
Well... (Score:5, Funny)
Two words (Score:4, Funny)
has any one considered (Score:2, Funny)
Re:lol... (Score:2, Funny)
Interested (Score:4, Funny)
Sincerely yours,
Osama bin Laden
Got WMD? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:first things first (Score:5, Funny)
Utah [sco.com] would be a good spot.
Re:Bet the... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Interested (Score:5, Funny)
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Duke Nukem (Score:5, Funny)
Re:lol... (Score:2, Funny)
Just don't try and buy it with a check.
Re:Don't just leave it there... (Score:5, Funny)
The tons of enriched Plutonium sitting in Kazahkstan (sp?) are more easily acquired by terrorists than stuff lying on the bottom of the ocean.
Still, just letting it sit there and contaminate the fish isn't a good idea.
Re:lol... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No worrys. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Retrieval (Score:5, Funny)
Osama bin Laden: Hey, Ayman, whassup? check this out -- there's a nuke off the infidel American coast that we can blow up!
Ayman al-Zawahiri: Sorry, Osama, we can't do it; there's an international accord against it. We'll have to stick to strictly legal forms of terrorism, like hijacking airplanes and blowing up buildings.
OBL: Curses! Foiled again!
Re:Interested (Score:5, Funny)
We would be more than happy to send you the Thermonuclear Bomb for the low price of $1.99, with shipping and handeling of $2,000,000.
No, no - shipping is free for the esteemed My Bin Laden (long time customer and all). However, we will require that he take personal delivery.
Re:Bush (Score:2, Funny)
On behalf of the East Coast: (Score:5, Funny)
Thank you,
A Concerned North Carolina Resident
Re:lol... (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, that sounds like a great plan.
This call may be recorded for purposes of quality assurance.
Hello, tech support, "Guy" speaking.
Yes, I'm having trouble with this global thermonuclear warhead, I can't get the BSD driver working!
OK sir, to help you, I have to know whether you are using Windows 98/ME or Windows XP.
This isn't either, it's BSD. I can't get the system to recognize the device at all.
Could you please first to double click on the "My Computer"...
You're from India aren't you! I'm taking this global thermonuclear warhead back to the store!
Re:Nuke the whales! (Score:5, Funny)
"Save the Whales, collect the entire set"
WMD (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Nuke the whales! (Score:5, Funny)
NUKE THE GAY WHALES FOR JESUS!
Nuclear bomb in 12ft of water (Score:2, Funny)
Wouldn't work (Score:5, Funny)
Unfortunately, this weapon might not prove terribly effective against the kind folks at SCO. [iastate.edu]
I know! I know! (Score:5, Funny)
LICK IT! LICK IT!
Unfortunately (Score:4, Funny)
if it isn't the bomb (Score:4, Funny)
And if it isn't the bomb, the question now is "WTF?!"
Re:Nuke the whales! (Score:2, Funny)
NUKE A GODLESS COMMUNIST GAY BABY SEAL FOR CHRIST
Though I think that one was actually on a T-shirt.
Re:lol... (Score:5, Funny)
And it's a '58 model so it'll have really cool tailfins!
Re:Interested (Score:5, Funny)
Any idea how a nucular bomb works?
Would they thank you? (Score:5, Funny)
Give it to Saddam, to justify the war in Iraq.
Re:RIGHT (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The Sum Of All Fears (Score:4, Funny)
You had me until you said "nucular".
Get outta here, George!
Re:Interested (Score:2, Funny)
For you we have a special price of $0. We'll even
"throw in" air freight for free. Just provide us
with your physical address (sorry, no PO Boxes)
and we'll send a few for you and your friends
right over. Oh, and as a bonus, we'll toss in
free glassware and we'll pave your parking lot.
Sincerely,
Strategic Air Command
U.S.A. Air Force
Re:Nuke the whales! (Score:1, Funny)
They had no idea how to deal with beached whales back then.
Re: Hmm... (Score:2, Funny)
> I'm curious now - given the materials necessary, how many slashdotters could construct a working nuclear weapon?
Easy - break the uranium up into small chunks, and search the Web for instructions on how to build a slingshot.
Re:Interested (Score:3, Funny)
Re:OT: yes, islam is nirvana (Score:2, Funny)
Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
Are you saying it wasn't the Turks?
Re:Interested (Score:5, Funny)
-Charlie
Georgia, was it? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No worrys. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:WRONG (Score:2, Funny)
sincerly,
doc brown
Explosives squad... (Score:3, Funny)
Well, when the explosives squad finds a WW2 bomb out here, they tag on some extra explosives and just make it go boom.
That's one I'd like to watch..... From a different planet.
Re:RIGHT (Score:3, Funny)
Worthless to the US and Russia who have dismantled a fair fraction of their nuclear arsenal. But very valuable to countries who need more electrical generating capacity and who are under threat of invasion by a larger country. Both of these are applicable to Iran.
Re:WRONG (Score:1, Funny)
sincerely,
the Libyans