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Originally Posted by MadMike
Skybird,
The BBC moved the story from the front page after I posted a note to the UK Daily Mail website clarifying the matter. Have they bothered to correct their falsehoods? Of course not, it makes good reading along with the purported 1958 accident at RAF Greenham Common.
What coverup? Information is readily available from the Department of Energy, if you know what documents to look for AND contact the proper agency. I've never had any problems getting declassified documents and the response is reasonably fast. My co-author and I are following several leads on suspected accidents, but we've never found any evidence of a "cover up" (poor record keeping yes, but no cover up).
By the way, we have over 35 years experience in the nuclear weapons career field.
The declassified material we reference is readily available from the Department of Energy (DOE Historical Films), DOD.mil, and DOE Restricted Data Declassification Decisions.
Yours, Mike
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Mike,
I am not personally arguing with you, since I have no first hand insight into the matter, I just can take note of their cliam, and your different claim. But the BBC claims to possess official documents proving that one weapon has not been found or it's fate not verified, but that it has been left behind after it was not found. That is the message. It is between you and the BBC to clear that dispute on wether the documents are false or not. I just say that they attack right the argument and position that you are representing.
I will also not argue about why I said a nation losing a WMD has an interest to cover up such an incident if it looses one of them. It should be self-explanatory why such a self-interest in that scenario is a given.
Meanwhile, German news has taken up the story as well, saying that the Pentagon refuses to comment, and that the head of the commission or the leader of the operation trying to find the lost fourth weapon back then, expressed the deep frustration of their team that they never were able to locate the fourth device and clear it's fate, and that they were ordered to leave it behind after they did not know what else could be tried.
The BBC obviously bases on documents they rate as authentic. Wether them or you are right obviously to large ammounts depends on the nature and quality of these documents.