Watched a tv show recently,were a guy was trying to find a H bomb that was dropped in the bay off Savannah in the 60s,anybody hear this one....

Watched a tv show recently,were a guy was trying to find a H bomb that was dropped in the bay off Savannah in the 60s,anybody hear this one....

Well, according to a website which has a nice list of accidents involving nuclear weapons...

February 5, 1958, Savannah River, Georgia

A nuclear weapon without a fissile core was lost following a mid-air collision. A B-47 bomber carrying a nuclear weapon without its fissile core collided with a F-86 aircraft near Savannah, Georgia. Following three unsuccessful attempts to land the plane at Hunter Air Force Base in Georgia, the weapon was jettisoned to avoid the risk of a high explosive detonation at the base. The weapon was jettisoned into the water several miles from the mouth of Savannah River in Wassaw Sound off Tybee Beach, but the precise point of impact is unknown. The weapon's high explosives did not detonate on impact. A subsequent search covering three square miles used divers and sonar devices, but failed to find the weapon. The search was ended on April 16, 1958, and the weapon was considered to be irretrievably lost.


Some accounts of nuclear weapon accidents list a February 12, 1958, accident involving a B-47 near Savannah, Georgia. "The best estimate" of the weapon's location, an earlier DoD narrative noted, "was determined to be 31 degrees 54' 15" North, 80 degrees 54' 45" West." The B-47 was on a simulated combat mission from Florida's Homestead Air Force Base.


http://www.cdi.org/Issues/NukeAccidents/accidents.htm

Just read that link you provided vile,chilling reading at least,I was always under the impression that the high explosive casing was the trigger for nuclear reaction to take place,but I guess I was mistaken..