Truth is Stranger than Fiction Department

In 1958 a nuclear bomb 100 times more powerful than that dropped on Hiroshima was accidentally lost over the coast of Georgia. Amazing! But it doesn't stop there. At first, there was an intense search but the search petered out when several weeks later another bomb was accidentally dropped near Florence SC - fortunately the latter weapon, although nuclear, was not primed. The bomb's conventional components, however, detonated on impact creating a huge crater and injuring several farmers. The weapon lost over the Georgia coast may have been found recently by a private radiation expert who measured radiation levels 3,000 times above normal near where the bomb was said to have gone down.