H-Bomb Likely to Be Undersea, Paper Says
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A U.S. nuclear bomb lost more than three decades ago probably lies on the seabed off Greenland’s Thule air base, which the United States aims to use for its controversial antimissile shield, a Danish newspaper reported. Classified documents obtained by a group of former workers at Thule, an Arctic air and radar base built by the United States in 1951-52, suggest that one of four hydrogen bombs on a B-52 bomber that crashed there in 1968 was never found, the daily Jyllands-Posten said.
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