About 30 minutes after midnight, now Feb. 5, the B-47 was near the border of South Carolina and Georgia when they felt a major jolt along with a bright flash of light to their starboard wing. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. "And so those nuclear weapons would have fallen back to the sea floor," says Lewis. Sen Graham Warns of Nuke Strike After Missing Warheads Report It's been reported around the globe that some sort of seismic activity consistent with a nuke occurred off the coast of SC. In 1989, another Soviet nuclear submarine, the K-278Komsomolets, sank in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway. But mostly, its just too fantastical to tell people, she said. The Air Force was sued by the family of the victims, who received US$54,000, equivalent to $507,176 in 2021. Broken Arrow: The Nuclear Bomb That Was Lost And Never Found Whoops: Atomic Bomb dropped in Goldsboro, NC swamp, Neuse River Basin Russia's defence ministry did not immediately respond to a query asking for confirmation of the RIA . A month later they used a different kind of robotic submarine a cable-controlled underwater vehicle to grab the bomb by its parachute directly, and haul it up. 9 Nuclear Near-Misses During the Cold War - HISTORY On March 11, 1958, the Gregg family was going about their business when a malfunction in a B-47 flying overhead caused the atomic bomb on board to drop on to their S.C. backyard. When? The dogs that live in Chernobyl city have a background of boxer and Rottweiler, while the dogs in Slavutych have more Labrador retriever in them, Ostrander said. (Source). 47782 has rested off Savannah since Feb. 5, 1958. When this news first broke, the following was reported: In September 1905, Albert Einstein placed his fountain pen on the pages of his scientific paper, and scribbled down an idea that would become the world's most famous equation. I'm not saying that there are no missing nukes. For over four decades of the Cold War the world lived under the threat of nuclear annihilation. Six years after losing the first bomb, two nuclear cores were lost when a B-47 bomber likely crashed in the Mediterranean Sea while en route from MacDill AFB, Florida to Ben Guerir Air Base, Morocco. [2][3] The incident made domestic and international headlines.[6][7]. There was no real defense. The Soviet Union's nuclear past is particularly murky it had amassed a stockpile of45,000 nuclear weaponsas of 1986.