The Case of the Missing H-Bomb: The Pentagon Has Lost the Mother of All Weapons

60 years have passed since a damaged jet dropped a hydrogen bomb near Savanah, Ga. -- and the Pentagon still can't find it.

Coastal residents want the weapon located and removed. "Plutonium is a nightmare and their own people know it," said Pam O'Brien, an anti-nuke organizer from Douglassville, Georgia. "It can get in everything--your eyes, your bones, your gonads. You never get over it. They need to get that thing out of there." Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - May. 19, 2009

The tales of hydrogen bombs lost or damaged in accidents makes revealing reading. The coverup and recklessness are similarly disconcerting.

More clear reasons for global nuclear disarmament.

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