{"id":7734340,"date":"2026-07-29T12:08:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T10:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/tybee-island-lost-hydrogen-bomb-1958\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T12:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T10:09:06","slug":"tybee-island-lost-hydrogen-bomb-1958","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/de\/tybee-island-lost-hydrogen-bomb-1958\/","title":{"rendered":"America Lost a Hydrogen Bomb Off Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n\r\n<p>Somewhere under the muddy shallows of Wassaw Sound, off the coast of Georgia, sits a 7,600-pound hydrogen bomb. The United States Air Force dropped it there in 1958, searched for ten weeks, gave up, and has left it alone ever since. It is one of a handful of American nuclear weapons that were lost and never recovered &mdash; and this one lies a few miles from a beach town of 3,000 people.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>How a thermonuclear bomb ended up on the sea floor near Savannah is a story of a mid-air collision in the dark, a pilot with an impossible choice, and a decades-long argument over just how dangerous the thing really is.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;border-radius:8px;padding:20px;margin:24px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:18px\">Quick Facts<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:20px;line-height:1.8\"><li><strong>Date:<\/strong> 5 February 1958<\/li><li><strong>Weapon:<\/strong> Mark 15 hydrogen bomb, serial 47782 (yield up to 3.8 megatons)<\/li><li><strong>Aircraft:<\/strong> Boeing B-47 Stratojet, hit by an F-86 Sabre<\/li><li><strong>Pilot:<\/strong> Maj. (later Col.) Howard Richardson<\/li><li><strong>Bomb jettisoned:<\/strong> into Wassaw Sound off Tybee Island, Georgia<\/li><li><strong>Status:<\/strong> never recovered &mdash; a &ldquo;Broken Arrow&rdquo; to this day<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A collision in the dark<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>In the small hours of 5 February 1958, a B-47 Stratojet was flying home to Homestead Air Force Base, Florida, after a simulated bombing run. In its bomb bay rode a single Mark 15 hydrogen bomb &mdash; a weapon with a yield of up to 3.8 megatons, roughly 190 times the bomb that destroyed Nagasaki.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The exercise was nearly over when an F-86 Sabre, flying a mock intercept, sliced into the bomber. The fighter&rsquo;s pilot, Lieutenant Clarence Stewart, ejected and parachuted &mdash; badly frostbitten &mdash; into a South Carolina swamp. The B-47 dropped like a stone from 38,000 feet, and only at 20,000 did its pilot, Major Howard Richardson, wrestle it back under control.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=903510092  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:WHz2.c825\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/boeing-b-47-stratojet-tybee.jpg\" alt=\"A Boeing B-47 Stratojet\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A Boeing B-47 Stratojet, the swept-wing nuclear bomber that carried &mdash; and then jettisoned &mdash; the Tybee bomb. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1Za8Z3-aEyo\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;font-style:italic\">A 1952 U.S. Air Force film introducing the B-47 Stratojet.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Ditch the bomb<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Richardson nursed the crippled bomber toward Hunter Air Force Base near Savannah &mdash; only to learn its single runway was under repair and dangerously rough. A hard landing might tear the huge bomb loose and send it out the front of the aircraft, in his words, &ldquo;like a bullet through a gun barrel.&rdquo; So he made the only sane choice: jettison it into the sea.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>At about 7,200 feet and 200 knots, the crew released the Mark 15 over Wassaw Sound. There was no flash, no shockwave &mdash; just a splash somewhere in the dark water. Richardson then put the battered B-47 down safely at Hunter and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. The bomb was never seen again.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Armed, or disabled?<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Here the story splits. The Mark 15 held 400 pounds of conventional explosives and highly enriched uranium. Whether it could have produced a nuclear blast depends on one thing: was its plutonium &ldquo;capsule&rdquo; aboard? For decades the answer has flipped back and forth.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=222235049  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:WHz2.c825\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/tybee-form-al-569-custodian-receipt.jpg\" alt=\"The Tybee bomb custody receipt\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The custody receipt Richardson signed before the flight, promising no active capsule would be inserted into the bomb. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<p>In 1966, an assistant secretary of defense told Congress the Tybee weapon was one of two lost bombs that were &ldquo;complete&rdquo; &mdash; armed with their nuclear capsules.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #d32f2f;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;[The Tybee bomb was] a complete weapon, a bomb with a nuclear capsule.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>W. J. Howard<\/strong> &mdash; Assistant Secretary of Defense, 1966 letter to Congress<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n<p>Richardson spent his later years furiously rejecting that account. He pointed to the receipt he had signed &mdash; which barred any active capsule from being inserted into the bomb &mdash; and dismissed the nuclear-danger claims outright.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;[The claim that the bomb could cause a nuclear explosion is] a disgraceful fraud.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Col. Howard Richardson<\/strong> &mdash; the B-47 pilot, in a 2008 op-ed<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n<p>Air Force records support Richardson: Strategic Air Command test flights of that era were not authorised to carry live capsules. The likeliest truth is that the bomb cannot produce a nuclear detonation &mdash; but it still holds hundreds of pounds of high explosive and weapons-grade material on a public seabed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZXcli5Pxp2I\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;font-style:italic\">Restored archival film of the B-47 Stratojet.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Still down there<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The Navy searched for nine weeks in 1958, dragging sonar and cables across the sound. They turned up Civil War cannonballs &mdash; still live &mdash; but no bomb. A 2001 survey concluded the Mark 15 is probably buried under five to fifteen feet of silt. In 2004 a retired officer with a Geiger counter thought he had found it; the Air Force sent a team, decided the radiation was natural, and closed the case.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Officially, the bomb is judged safest where it lies, and best left undisturbed. So it stays &mdash; a genuine hydrogen bomb, lost on purpose, resting quietly in the mud a short boat ride from the beach.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s5V34AzXt18\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;font-style:italic\">A short recap of America&rsquo;s still-missing Tybee bomb.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><em>Sources: 1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (Wikipedia); Roger Pinckney, &ldquo;The Saga of the Tybee Bomb,&rdquo; Garden &amp; Gun; BBC News; NPR; U.S. Air Force Nuclear Weapons and Counterproliferation Agency assessment (2001).<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">Related Posts<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/goldsboro-1961-b52-broken-arrow-hydrogen-bombs\/\">One Switch From Armageddon<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/when-a-nuclear-bombers-cozy-cushions-caused-an-inferno-in-greenland\/\">B-52 With H-Bombs Crashes in Greenland<\/a><\/p><\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere under the muddy shallows of Wassaw Sound, off the coast of Georgia, sits a 7,600-pound hydrogen bomb. 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