This essay is featured in Jeffrey St. Clair's forthcoming book, Loose
Nukes published by Count Zero Press.
Things go missing. It's to be expected. Even at the Pentagon. Last
October, the Pentagon's inspector general reported that the
military's accountants had misplaced a destroyer, several tanks and
armored personnel carriers, hundreds of machine guns, rounds of ammo,
grenade launchers and some surface-to-air missiles. In all, nearly $8
billion in weapons were AWOL.
Those anomalies are bad enough. But what's truly chilling is the fact
that the Pentagon has lost track of the mother of all weapons, a
hydrogen bomb. The thermonuclear weapon, designed to incinerate
Moscow, has been sitting somewhere off the coast of Savannah, Georgia
for the past 40 years. The Air Force has gone to greater lengths to
conceal the mishap than to locate the bomb and secure it.
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