Lost and Found Nukes

So, fortunately, nuclear weapons degrade rather quickly (literally within 5-20 years depending how well they are maintained), and can become practically harmless after that (especially if they're underwater). So those lost nukes aren't a threat to anyone at this point.

However, it is kind of disconcerting that we lost them to begin with.... And even more so that we know the USSR lied about losing nukes, and lost a whole bunch of them after the USSR fell...

...i wonder, if the fish had 3 eyes...! ;-)

@Packless1 maybe the other two eyes are on the other side of the fish

@Packless1 It's Blinky from the Simpsons!

America is clearly known as the most responsible of countries

So I looked it up. Apparently the American military has admitted to stealing 6 nuclear weapons since 1950.
Not to make anyone nervous....
At all....

@tigercub123 And the important part of that is, that's what they have ADMITTED to

@tigercub123 Yeah 'admitted'

We had two of them get dropped in NC and they left one of them where it fell because it was too wet out. ( bit of an exaggeration but not much)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash#:~:text=The%201961%20Goldsboro%20B%2D52,nuclear%20payload%20in%20the%20process.

These incidents where a nuke armed aircraft either crashes or is forced to ditch a nuke are refereed to as "Broken Arrows". The History Guy on Youtube has a great video compiling all the times he's done a video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJyf_M611cw

@Amstrad ...oh my...! :-(
...if they have a special name for it, it seems to happen more often...!
...and that WORRIES ME...!!!

...and that's only the american nukes...
...from Russia you hear little about that topic - but i guess they have simmilar numbers...
...and that should worry us EVEN MORE...!!!

The stars on America's flag are also missing