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Science Gone WrongJun 09, 2026

The Lost Tybee Bomb

The Lost Tybee Bomb February 5, 1958. A B-47 collides over Georgia. The pilot jettisons a hydrogen bomb. It splashes into Wassaw Sound. The Air Force searched for nine weeks. They never found it. It is still down there today.

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US Department of Defense, 1981, 'Narrative Summaries of Accidents Involving U.S. Nuclear Weapons 1950-1980'

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