its down the back of the couch with womens rights

Probably the same way the Swiss military regularly misplaces tanks and such. All those things are not exactly small, it boggles the mind 🙈

It is being carried by an air or naval craft that goes down in a location that can not be accessed or found. -- Heck the USAF a few years ago found one that went missing in the 60's or so.

God dammit Gary, we've already been through this.

It's not lost Government, it's just where you left it. Now go clean your room!

Often they’re lost on disappeared planes or dropped by accident. Remember it wasn’t all that long ago the USA (and other nuclear powers) maintained a 24/7 deterrence using air dropped bombs rather than land/sea launched. Also I thought “broken arrow” was bombs that broke up etc but where located as opposers to “empty quiver” where they were missing. We have no idea how many the soviets,Chinese, North Koreans etc have lost even if we believe the Western govs - there’s probably a lot more than the stated figures.

No kidding! It’s not like someone clocked out one day and decided to put it in his lunchbox just for funsies!

Where have you seen it last?

To join the service you are required only to be 18 years old and capable of signing your name. Not exactly a high bar. Some service members are extremely intelligent, of course, while others are capable of losing a nuclear weapon.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_nuclear_incident_terminology#Broken_Arrow

One was dropped in the gulf (plane was having issues), with the intent to go get it, but they can't find it.

They lost one in the ocean off Savannah, GA.

Maybe they were being transported on a plane that went down in the ocean or a submarine

Welcome to America! Where the people are stupid and our logic is even stupider!

... opens the fridge..."There you are!"

They left it their other jacket pocket that was stuffed in the closet.

The gov. conveniently forgot to check its tracker b/c last time they did, it was conveniently transmitting from a strategic place to detonate. Be kind of a bummer to ruin an advantage.

Perhaps the NATO Stocknumber looks like the NATO Stocknumber of socks? I often misplace those.

Let's just ask the Americans!

My exact thought😂😂😂😂😂

"I forgot my briefcase" can be extremely disconcerting in the right context... and this is absolutely the right context

Often enough to have a name for the incident...

Goddamn it carol!!

The six in question ended up on the bottom or the ocean...we have more nuclear warheads at sea than on land.

Uf you're running tests and it falls out of the plane but you don't know where

There’s at least one US lost off the coast of Spain and to prove losing nukes is not one sided there’s a Soviet sub sunk with its full compartment of nuke tipped missiles elsewhere of the costs of Spain and another off the coast of Georgia (the state not the country) they kind of know where they are but recovery hasn’t being successful

Carelessly.

very carefully.

Some of us were able to get there first and add them to our collection. >:)

A 747 went missing. It's a big world

As long as its not armed, it won't explode, but it might scatter nuclear material over a wide area.

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J.T. and Christian Slater, together

There ya go - 1 point for you :)

I think if the asset in question is a nuclear weapon, head office should send someone to check.

More likely an accounting error. Nuclear warheads have a *very* limited shelf-live, and have to be de-commissioned at a much faster rate than other, more conventional weapons systems. The record keeping and accounting methods change right along with every change in the general staff.