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Broken Arrow: Americas Missing Nukes
Description
Over the past 80 years the United States has built tens of thousands of nuclear bombs. The problem is that several of them have simply gone missing, without a trace. These six weapons are the United States' broken arrows.
Sources
https://www.atomicarchive.com/almanac/broken-arrows/index.html;
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/command-and-control-broken-arrows-how-many-nuclear-accidents-have-we-had/
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220804-the-lost-nuclear-bombs-that-no-one-can-find
Image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon#/media/File:Little_Boy_bomb.jpg
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