Every once in a while, a high reading of radioactivity off the coast of Tybee Island, Georgia, sends the US government scrambling to look for a nuclear weapon that's likely hidden 13 to 55 feet below the ocean and sand, buried in the seafloor.
"I know some people think it's settled," Schwartz said."I haven't fully made up my mind, but I feel like I am more comfortable going with the contemporaneous accounts."In 2000, retired Air Force officer Derek Duke contacted then-Rep. Jack Kingston of Georgia about the missing bomb and Howard's memo, CBS News reported. At the congressman's urging, the Air Force looked into the pros and cons of trying to locate and remove the weapon versus leaving it alone.
"The whole Air Force perspective is, it's just not worth it," Schwartz said."Trying to move it could create bigger problems than if we just leave it where it is." The Department of Energy sent subject matter experts to examine what the citizen searchers found in 2015, Shayela Hassan, deputy director of the Office of Communications with the National Nuclear Security Administration, said in an emailed statement to Insider.
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