00:00In 1968, the United States Air Force lost a nuclear weapon.
00:04And it's still missing.
00:05A B-52 bomber caught fire over Greenland
00:08and crashed onto the sea ice near Thule Air Base.
00:11It was carrying four hydrogen bombs.
00:13The explosion scattered radioactive plutonium
00:16across miles of frozen water.
00:18What happened next was worse than the crash.
00:20The military sent hundreds of workers onto the contaminated ice.
00:24Danish laborers, American airmen.
00:26Most had no protective gear.
00:28They were told the area was safe.
00:30It wasn't.
00:32The military secretly collected over 10,000 cubic meters of radioactive ice
00:36and shipped it out of Greenland.
00:38Radiation readings were falsified.
00:40Workers were never told what they had been exposed to.
00:43Three of the four bombs were eventually recovered.
00:45The fourth was never found.
00:47It sank somewhere beneath the ice.
00:49No one has retrieved it.
00:51In the decades that followed, many of the cleanup workers developed cancer.
00:55Dozens died.
00:56The Danish government fought their claims for years.
00:59A bomb is still sitting under that ice right now.
01:01diese. In the days that
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