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An of the type lost when jettisoned after the collisionMidair CollisionDateFebruary 5, 1958SummarySite, U.S.:First aircraftTypeOperator51-2349Fatalities0Second aircraftTypeSabreOperatorUnited States Air ForceCrew1Survivors1The Tybee Island mid-air collision was an incident on February 5, 1958, in which the lost a 7,600-pound (3,400 kg) in the waters off near,. During a practice exercise, an fighter plane collided with the bomber carrying the bomb. To protect the aircrew from a possible detonation in the event of a crash, the bomb was jettisoned. Following several unsuccessful searches, the bomb was presumed lost somewhere in off the shores of Tybee Island. GeorgiaThe bomber was on a simulated combat mission from in. It was carrying a single 7,600-pound (3,400 kg) bomb. At about 2:00 a.m., an fighter collided with the B-47.

The F-86 crashed after the pilot from the plane. The damaged B-47 remained airborne, plummeting 18,000 feet (5,500 m) from 38,000 feet (12,000 m) when Colonel Richardson regained flight control.The crew requested permission to jettison the bomb, in order to reduce weight and prevent the bomb from exploding during an. Permission was granted, and the bomb was jettisoned at 7,200 feet (2,200 m) while the bomber was traveling at about 200 knots (370 km/h). The crew did not see an explosion when the bomb struck the sea. They managed to land the B-47 safely at the nearest base,.

A lost city, and island that was at one time the location of a grand Spartan battle, might have been found again in Turkey. Crews of archaeologists have discovered indication that portions of a peninsula located in the western Izmir region of the country were formerly an island. List of missing treasures. This is an incomplete list of notable treasures that are currently lost or missing. Name Existence Year lost Image Description Menorah from the Second Temple. A possible treasure trove located in a large hole on an island off the coast of Nova Scotia.

The pilot, Colonel Howard Richardson, was awarded the after this incident. The bomb Some sources describe the bomb as a functional nuclear weapon, but others describe it as disabled.

If it had a nuclear core installed, it was a fully functional weapon. Knights and brides wiki. If it had a dummy core installed, it was incapable of producing a nuclear explosion but could still produce a conventional explosion. The 12-foot (4 m) long Mark 15 bomb weighs 7,600 pounds (3,400 kg) and bears the serial number 47782.

It contains 400 pounds (180 kg) of conventional high explosives and highly enriched. The Air Force maintains that its, used to initiate the nuclear reaction, was removed before its flight aboard B-47. As noted in the Atomic Energy Commission 'Form AL-569 Temporary Custodian Receipt (for maneuvers)', signed by the aircraft commander, the bomb contained a simulated 150-pound cap made of lead.

However, according to 1966 Congressional testimony by Assistant Secretary of Defense W.J. Howard, the Tybee Island bomb was a 'complete weapon, a bomb with a nuclear capsule' and one of two weapons lost that contained a plutonium trigger. Nevertheless, a study of the documents indicates that Alert Force test flights in February 1958 with the older Mark 15 payloads were not authorized to fly with nuclear capsules on board. Such approval was pending deployment of safer 'sealed-pit nuclear capsule' weapons, which did not begin deployment until June 1958. Recovery efforts Starting on February 6, 1958, the Air Force 2700th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Squadron and 100 Navy personnel equipped with hand-held and galvanic drag and cable sweeps mounted a search. On April 16, the military announced the search had been unsuccessful.

Based on a survey, the bomb was thought by the Department of Energy to lie buried under 5 to 15 feet (2 to 5 m) of silt at the bottom of.In 2004, retired Lt. Colonel Derek Duke claimed to have narrowed the possible resting spot of the bomb down to a small area approximately the size of a football field. He and his partner located the area by trawling in their boat with a in tow. Secondary radioactive particles four times naturally occurring levels were detected and mapped, and the site of radiation origination triangulated. Subsequent investigations found the source of the radiation was natural, originating from deposits.

Ongoing concerns As of 2007, no undue levels of unnatural have been detected in the regional Upper Floridan aquifer by the (over and above the already high levels thought to be due to, a locally occurring mineral that is naturally radioactive). In popular culture In February 2015, a satirical news site ran an article stating that the bomb was found by vacationing Canadian divers and that the bomb had since been removed from the bay.

The fake story spread widely via social media.The collision and its aftermath also drives the plot of the novel, Three Chords & The Truth, by published in November 2016. See also.Notes. Mark Natola, ed. Boeing B-47 Stratojet. Schiffer Publishing Ltd. Pp. 77–80. ^, Missing for 50 years – US nuclear bomb (June 22, 2009).

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Twitty, Col., U.S. Air Force, February 4, 1958. Released under FOIA. (PDF)., When We Almost Nuked Savannah: The Case of the Missing H-Bomb (May 15, 2009) July 3, 2011, at the., Letter of W.J.

Howard, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (Atomic Energy), to the Chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Congress of the United States (April 22, 1966). (PDF),., History of the Strategic Air Command January 1, 1958 – June 30, 1958. Released under FOIA. (PDF) July 9, 2015, at the. February 5, 2018, at the.

October 30, 2010, at the, Discovery's Science Channel documentary about the Tybee Bomb (2007)., Drinking Water Quality Consumer Confidence Report (2007) August 9, 2009, at the. Retrieved May 6, 2015.References. Air Force Nuclear Weapons and Counterproliferation Agency (PDF). April 12, 2001. Archived from (PDF) on April 8, 2016. Retrieved February 6, 2015.

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Michael H. Maggelet and James C. Oskins (2008). 'Broken Arrow: The Declassified History of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Accidents'. Lulu.External links., Informational site about the Tybee Bomb., Marabella Productions & Discovery's Science Channel documentary about the Tybee Bomb (2007)., For 50 Years, Nuclear Bomb Lost in Watery Grave (February 3, 2008)., Missing for 50 years – US nuclear bomb (June 22, 2009)., Nuclear Bomb Dropped in Georgia; No Nuclear Capsule Inserted, Documents Show (2004)., Chart of nuclear bombs, including the Mark 15.

by Col. Derek Duke (as told to Fred Dungan)., BBC audio programme on the Tybee Bomb, streaming audio.

A 1669 map by Athanasius Kircher put Atlantis in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The map is oriented with south at the top.The idea of Atlantis — the 'lost' island subcontinent often idealized as an advanced, utopian society holding wisdom that could bring world peace — has captivated dreamers, occultists and New Agers for generations. Thousands of books, magazines and websites are devoted to Atlantis, and it remains a popular topic.

People have lost fortunes — and in some cases even their lives — looking for Atlantis. The origins of AtlantisUnlike many legends whose origins have been lost in the mists of time, we know exactly when and where the story of Atlantis first appeared. The story was first told in two of Plato's dialogues, the 'Timaeus' and the 'Critias,' written about 360 B.C.Though today Atlantis is often conceived of as a peaceful utopia, the Atlantis that Plato described in his fable was very different.

In his book ',' professor of archaeology Ken Feder notes that in Plato's story, 'Atlantis is not a place to be honored or emulated at all. Atlantis is not the perfect society. Quite the contrary, Atlantis is the embodiment of a materially wealthy, technologically advanced, and militarily powerful nation that has become corrupted by its wealth, sophistication, and might.'

As propaganda in Plato's morality tale, the Atlantis legend is more about the city's heroic rival Athens than a sunken civilization; if Atlantis really existed today and was found intact and inhabited, its residents would probably try to kill and enslave us all.It's clear that Plato made up Atlantis as a plot device for his stories, because there no other records of it anywhere else in the world. There are many extant Greek texts; surely someone else would have also mentioned, at least in passing, such a remarkable place. There is simply no evidence from any source that the legends about Atlantis existed before Plato wrote about it.In his book ' Mark Adams explains how an otherwise unremarkable Greek legend became so widely known. It was due to a Minnesota man named Ignatius Donnelly (1831-1901). Donnelly was a Congressmen and amateur historian who claimed, in his 1882 book 'The Antediluevian World,' that all great advances in civilization and technology could be traced back to the long-lost island mentioned by Plato.

But Donnelly went beyond merely popularizing Plato's story; he added some of his own 'facts' and ideas that have become part of the Atlantis myth. Donnelly promoted what is now called 'diffusionism,' the idea that all great cultures can be traced back to a single source.Adams describes Donnelly 'as the first great Atlantis fundamentalist, in that he believed that Plato's story was factually accurate outside of the supernatural elements like Poseidon.'

Donnelly sent a copy of his book to Charles Darwin, who found it interesting but unpersuasive — reading it, he said, 'in a very skeptical spirit.' Adams, after poring over much of Donnelly's materials, comes to a similar conclusion: 'Donnelly was. A bag of winds. He knew the results he wanted and rummaged through his sources searching for only those facts that fit his needs, without pausing to note any reasonable doubts.' Later, less skeptical writers elaborated on Donnelly's theories, adding their own opinions and speculations. These included mystic Madame Blavatsky (in her 1888 book, 'The Secret Doctrine') and famous psychic Edgar Cayce in the 1920s. Cayce, who put a fundamentalist Christian spin on the Atlantis story, gave psychic readings for thousands of people — many of whom, he claimed, had past lives in Atlantis.

Unfortunately, none of the information was verifiable, and Cayce wrongly predicted that the continent would be discovered in 1969. The 'lost' continentDespite its clear origin in fiction, many people over the centuries have claimed that there must be some truth behind the myths, speculating about where Atlantis would be found. Countless Atlantis 'experts' have located the lost continent all around the world based on the same set of facts. Candidates — each accompanied by its own peculiar sets of evidence and arguments — include the Atlantic Ocean, Antarctica, Bolivia, Turkey, Germany, Malta and the Caribbean.Plato, however, is crystal clear about where Atlantis is: 'For the ocean there was at that time navigable; for in front of the mouth which you Greeks call, as you say, 'the pillars of Heracles,' (i.e., Hercules) there lay an island which was larger than Libya and Asia together.' In other word it lies in the Atlantic Ocean beyond 'The pillars of Hercules' (i.e., the Straits of Gibraltar, at the mouth of the Mediterranean). Yet it has never been found in the Atlantic, or anywhere else.The only way to make a mystery out of Atlantis (and to assume that it was once a real place) is to ignore its obvious origins as a moral fable and to change the details of Plato's story, claiming that he took license with the truth, either out of error or intent to deceive.

With the addition, omission, or misinterpretation of various details in Plato's work, nearly any proposed location can be made to 'fit' his description.Yet as writer L. Sprague de Camp noted in his book 'Lost Continents,' 'You cannot change all the details of Plato's story and still claim to have Plato's story. That is like saying the legendary King Arthur is 'really' Cleopatra; all you have to do is to change Cleopatra's sex, nationality, period, temperament, moral character, and other details, and the resemblance becomes obvious.' The most obvious sign that Atlantis is a myth is that no trace of it has ever been found despite advances in oceanography and ocean floor mapping in past decades. For nearly two millennia readers could be forgiven for suspecting that the vast depths might somehow hide a sunken city or continent.

Though there remains much mystery at the bottom of the world's oceans, it is inconceivable that the world's oceanographers, submariners, and deep-sea probes have some how missed a landmass 'larger than Libya and Asia together.' Statue of Plato at Academy of Athens, Greece (Image credit: )Furthermore plate tectonics demonstrate that Atlantis is impossible; as the continents have drifted, the seafloor has spread over time, not contracted. There would simply be no place for Atlantis to sink into. As Ken Feder notes, 'The geology is clear; there could have been no large land surface that then sank in the area where Plato places Atlantis. Together, modern archaeology and geology provide an unambiguous verdict: There was no Atlantic continent; there was no great civilization called Atlantis.'

Ignatius Donnelly was certain of his theory, predicting that hard evidence of the sunken city would soon be found, and that museums around the world would one day be filled with artifacts from Atlantis. Yet over 130 years have passed without a trace of evidence. The Atlantis legend has been kept alive, fueled by the public's imagination and fascination with the idea of a hidden, long-lost utopia. Yet the 'lost city of Atlantis' was never lost; it is where it always was: in Plato's books.