6 U.S. Nuclear Warheads Remain Unrecovered Decades After Accidents Introduction The U.S. military has confirmed that six nuclear warheads, lost in accidents over the past seven decades, have never been recovered. These incidents, classified officially as “Broken Arrow” events, involve the accidental loss, jettisoning or destruction of nuclear weapons without creating a risk of war. The total is derived from 32 documented major accidents involving nuclear weapons since the dawn of the nuclear age. [1] According to declassified military documents and historical records, the lost weapons range from hydrogen bombs to thermonuclear devices. The U.S. government’s position has been that if…

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