US wasn’t looking for a hydrogen bomb in Greenland, but for the marshal's batonComprehensive summary of DIIS Report "Marshal's Baton" on Copenhagen VoiceOn 14 August 2009, The Copenhagen Voice had a comprehensive summary of DIIS Report 2009:18: ”The Marshal’s Baton. There is no bomb, there was no bomb, they were not looking for a bomb” (Danish title: ”Marskalstaven. Der er ikke nogen bombe, der var ikke nogen bombe, og de ledte ikke efter nogen bombe”). The Copenhagen Voice article „US wasn’t looking for a hydrogen bomb in the sea off Greenland in 1968, but for the marshal's baton” was written by Michael de Laine. The article is on Facebook as well. Quote from the article: “American military personnel were not looking for a hydrogen bomb in the sea off Greenland in 1968, for there was no bomb, a study carried out by the Danish Institute for International Studies shows. What the Americans were looking for was the marshal’s baton – a closed pipe containing uranium 235, the fissile core of the bomb. It may have been destroyed in the explosion or disintegrated in the sea water, but it was apparently not recovered in one piece. What happened on 21 January 1968, when a US Air Force B-52 bomber carrying four hydrogen bombs crashed on a 70-cm thick layer of ice covering the sea in the Bylot Sound near the Thule Air Force Base in north-western Greenland?” Contact: Senior researcher Svend Aage Christensen, |
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