[CPEO-MEF] Post article on Georgia Nuke search

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Radiation Levels Prompt Search 
Atlantic Searched Near Where Bomb May Have Fallen in '58 

By J.R. Roseberry
The Washington Post
October 1, 2004 


SAVANNAH, Ga., Sept. 30 -- A team of Air Force and government security
officials, radiation experts and military divers converged on the
Georgia coast Thursday to investigate the spot where a long-lost
hydrogen bomb may be resting since it was dropped from a bomber in 1958.

The team dragged sensors in the water and the divers collected soil
samples during the day-long search in Wassaw Sound, near the beach
resort community of Tybee Island, where the Olympic sailing competition
was held in 1996.

The bomb, a 7,600-pound Mark 15, which has been described as a hundred
times more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima, was intentionally
jettisoned from a B-47 bomber after a midair collision with a jet fighter.

An intensive 90-day search conducted at the time failed to turn up any
sign of the bomb, which has been officially listed as "irretrievably
lost." Air Force officials have said that the bomb does not carry the
plutonium needed for a nuclear blast but that it does carry 400 pounds
of explosives.

...

for the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63419-2004Sep30.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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