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WMD FOUND!

But not where you would expect. If I remember correctly,there's another in Greenland.

UPDATE: Live by the post, die by the post. Here's a list of others:

July 28, 1957 – A C-124 Globemaster with 3 nuclear weapons and a nuclear capsule from Dover Air Force Base lost power in two engines. Two weapons were jettisoned somewhere off Rehobeth, Delaware and Cape May, New Jersey/Wildwood, New Jersey; they were reportedly never found.

December 5, 1965 – An A-4E Skyhawk airplane with one B43 nuclear weapon onboard falls off the USS Ticonderoga into 16,200 feet (4.9 km) of water off the coast of Japan. The ship was traveling from Vietnam to Yokosuka, Japan. The plane, pilot, and weapon are never recovered.

January 22, 1968 – 7 miles (11 km) south of Thule Air Force Base, Greenland, a fire breaks out in the navigator's compartment of a B-52 which crashes, scattering three hydrogen bombs on land and dropping one into the sea. During a cleanup complicated by Greenland's harsh weather, contaminated ice and airplane debris are buried in the U.S. Bomb fragments were recycled by Pantex, in Amarillo, Texas. Danes were outraged by the event because Greenland is a Danish possession, and Denmark forbids nuclear weapons on its territory. Denmark had massive demonstrations against the U.S. One warhead was recovered by Navy Seals and Seabees (U.S. naval engineers) in 1979. An August 2000 report suggests that the other bomb remains at the bottom of Baffin Bay.

Posted @ September 14, 2004 08:19 AM | Current Affairs

Comments

Off topic:
Usually, when a blogger completely re-does the style/presentation of their blog, they make a little post announcing that event. Including credit to whomever did the redesign, if it wasn't yourself.

You're a real blogger now. Go ahead, make one self-indulgent post :)

Posted by: Steve at September 14, 2004 11:57 AM

I thought about that and I decided that there's no need to announce what is self evident.

In addition, I havent really decided on a format that I like, Im actually testing both Moveable Type and the Typepad systems to see which works better for me. I Chose this Typepad layout to help with the coming photo-blog of the 'Reno Air Races' I will be covering this weekend. This layout is a multi-media 4 column layout provided by typepad. Its a little unusual, but I kinda like it.

and lastly, every post on a blog is self-indulgent, until I put a "tip jar" on the site,which im not likely to ever do.

Posted by: Frank Martin at September 14, 2004 01:03 PM

Oh, if I could write fiction. This could be the beginning of a great story.

Posted by: Sean Hackbarth at September 17, 2004 05:04 PM