News The Lost H bomb

[jstowe96]

Hey guys I'm watching the Military Channel and The US government is searching for the lost H bomb the size of a small struck that can wipe out 100,000+ Citizans and an entire city. They said it all happened when an f-86's Radar malfunctioned and only saw 1 lead bomber escorting the H bomb, so the f-86 hit the right wing of the Bomber carrying the H bomb and so had to drop the bomb to save the plane and it's crew, it landed of the coast of georgia, and landed safely somehow in the ocean. The bomber occasionaly made it safely.

The bomb also weighs 1.5 megatons.

 

[Izack]

A bomb's yield is not the same as its mass. IE a 1-megaton hydrogen bomb does not weigh a million tons.

 

[jstowe96]

I never said it did way 1million tons i said it weighs about the size of a small truck but yet heavy enough to be a 1.5 megaton H bomb, also that bomb can go up to 7,000 degrees Farenheit, or 3871.1111111111113 degrees celcius. 2x hotter than the suns surface. Plus the radioactive fall out kills another 1million people and it spreads to about 250-500 miles.

 

[MJR]

Ok. There are warheads as tall as me and have a yield of 4 Megatons. 6 feet is way smaller than a truck. I don't really think it breaks any records in size though. Still dangerous as any bomb.

 

[JonnyBGoode]

I never said it did way 1million tons i said it weighs about the size of a small truck but yet heavy enough to be a 1.5 megaton H bomb...

You said,

The bomb also weighs 1.5 megatons.

 

[jstowe96]

I dont know thats what the guys from the military channel said....

 

[orbitingpluto]

When did this bomb drop? Years ago or more recently?

 

[DarkEnergy]

Maybe the aliens took it... :lol: They've been monitoring our nukes a lot lately: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...apons-UFOs-deactivating-nuclear-missiles.html

At least they are keeping us safe from ourselves! :thumbup: But more seriously, the F-86 was used during the Korean War in the 1950's. It's a very old plane so I doubt this happened anytime recent (if at all...).

 

[MJR]

You said,

He probably meant yield.

 

[jinglesassy]

Ive heard of this and it didnt have a live nuclear core aboard it was a dummy bomb on the way to a military base for its live core. When it was dropped it detonated on impact but without a live atomic core it was a relativity low yield.

 

[Izack]

I never said it did way 1million tons i said it weighs about the size of a small truck but yet heavy enough to be a 1.5 megaton H bomb, also that bomb can go up to 7,000 degrees Farenheit, or 3871.1111111111113 degrees celcius. 2x hotter than the suns surface. Plus the radioactive fall out kills another 1million people and it spreads to about 250-500 miles.

Sorry, I didn't read that properly. :tiphat:

3800 degrees Celsius is cooler than the Sun's surface, I think. AFAIR the Sun's surface is more than 5500 degrees Celsius. Its corona is ~5 million degrees.

 

[Turbinator]

What the heck, why would the "atmosphere" of the Sun be a huge order of a magnitude higher than the surface?

 

[Pyromaniac605]

What does "The bomber occasionaly made it safely." mean?
Being a grammar nazi aside, this sound like BS to me.
And I do believe Izack is right about the Sun.

Darren

 

[computerex]

What the heck, why would the "atmosphere" of the Sun be a huge order of a magnitude higher than the surface?

If only we knew...

 

[Izack]

What the heck, why would the "atmosphere" of the Sun be a huge order of a magnitude higher than the surface?

I'm not sure, actually; I'm just going by the numbers.

The chromosphere, transition region, and corona are much hotter than the surface of the Sun. The reason has not been conclusively proven; evidence suggests that Alfvén waves may have enough energy to heat the corona.

From: [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun"]Sun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

 

[Wishbone]

Seems like we have a time warp somewhere around here, with F-86s and stuff. Hilarious!

 

[garyw]

I think jstwoe is refering to the Palomares incident although I don't know where the F-86's come in. The Palomares incident did occur in 1966 around the time the F-86 was in service though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Palomares_B-52_crash

well, I could be wrong, there is also this one:

* See Tybee Bomb. A USAF B-47 bomber jettisoned a Mark 15 Mod 0 nuclear bomb over the Atlantic Ocean after a midair collision with a USAF F-86 Sabre during a simulated combat mission from Homestead Air Force Base, Florida. The F-86’s pilot ejected and parachuted to safety. The USAF claimed the B-47 tried landing at Hunter Air Force Base, Georgia three times before the bomb was jettisoned at 7,200 ft (2,200 m) near Tybee Island, Georgia. The B-47 pilot successfully landed in one attempt only after he first jettisoned the bomb. A 3-square-mile (7.8 km2) area near Wassaw Sound was searched for 9 weeks before the search was called off. The bomb was searched for in 2001 and not found. A new group in 2004 claims to have found an underwater object which it thinks is the bomb.[24]

 

[jedidia]

That sounds pretty much like it. So... was that bomb armed?? It sounds terrifying to imagine that they'd loose a fully functional nuke. The possibility of someone else finding it is somewhat scarry (the whole scenario reminds me of fireball somehow :lol: )

 

[garyw]

I think the Palomares ones were. There was a report floating around the web (possibly on wiki as well) which stated that 5 of the six safeties failed so they were one safety switch away from an actual detonation.

 

[jinglesassy]

It couldn't detonate without its live atomic core.