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...
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...!!!
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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...