Daily quiz | On nuclear weapons

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On February 5, 1958, the US Air Force lost a hydrogen bomb named ‘Tybee’ near Georgia city and never recovered it. What is the US military’s term for such accidental events involving nuclear weapons that don’t create the risk of nuclear war?

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In 1968, a US B-52 aircraft carrying four thermonuclear bombs crashed onto the sea ice off the coast of _________. The conventional explosives in the bombs detonated, scattering radioactive material across the ice. While a cleanup effort recovered most of the debris, one of the four bombs’ secondary stages was reportedly lost. Fill in the blank.

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After the Soviet Union collapsed, a former Russian national security advisor named X said the Russian military had lost track of roughly 100 “suitcase-sized” nuclear devices. While Russia officially denied it, the potential existence of loose nukes in the post-Soviet era remains a significant topic of historical debate. Name X.

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In 1968, a Soviet submarine sank in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii while carrying three nuclear missiles and two nuclear torpedoes. In 1974, the CIA attempted a secret $800-million recovery mission called Project Y. They reportedly managed to lift a portion of the submarine before the part containing the missiles allegedly broke off and fell back down. Name Y.

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In 1965, the CIA and Indian Intelligence tried to install a plutonium-powered monitoring device atop _____ ____. A blizzard forced climbers to stow it at a ledge at 24,000 ft. But by spring, when the climbers returned to retrieve the equipment, they found an avalanche had swept the equipment away, thus leaving 5 kg of plutonium unaccounted for. Fill in the blanks.

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Name these islands. During a conflict involving them in 1982, in 2003, one of the countries involved in the conflict admitted that two vessels it had lost in the conflict carried nuclear depth charges.