THE STORY OF 3 MISSING US NUCLEAR BOMBS

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The US has lost at least three nuclear bombs that have never been located

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These bombs were lost between 1958 and 1968, as per a BBC report

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One of these undetonated thermonuclear, or hydrogen, bombs lies at the bottom of the Philippine Sea

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It is believed to be 70 times more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima

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Such incidents are called "Broken Arrow" incidents and there have been 32 of them but only three have been documented

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The first bomb went missing in February 1958 near the Tybee Island, Georgia

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It was jettisoned to reduce the plane's weight for a safer landing

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On December 5, 1965, a bomber plane, pilot and nuclear weapon slipped off the side of a carrier boat in the Philippine Sea

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The last incident took place on May 22, 1968, when a nuclear attack submarine sank in the middle of the Atlantic

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However, the risk of them causing a nuclear explosion is thought to be low, as per the BBC report

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