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Savannah’s Sleeping Giant: The Nuclear Bomb the US Air Force Never Recovered

The devil went down to Georgia.

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Wes O'Donnell
Nov 18, 2025
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The United States has lost a handful of nuclear weapons over the decades, but only one of them has a fan club, a parade float, and multiple half-drunk eyewitness accounts from shrimpers who swear they nearly dragged it into shore.

That bomb sits beneath the gray-green churn off Tybee Island, Georgia. Seventy yea…

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