A Nuclear Needle in a Haystack The Cold War's Missing Atom Bombs

 

A Nuclear Needle in a Haystack The Cold War's Missing Atom Bombs

By Benjamin Maack

In a 1968 plane crash, the US military lost an atom bomb in Greenland's Arctic ice. But this was no isolated case. Up to 50 nuclear warheads are believed to have gone missing during the Cold War, and not all of them are in unpopulated areas. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-nuclear-needle-in-a-haystack-the-cold-war-s-missing-atom-bombs-a-590513.html