Nuclear bombs, the most powerful weapons humanity currently possessed, had been involved in no fewer than a hundred loss incidents throughout history, with dozens of nuclear warheads lost!
Such major incidents involving lost nuclear bombs had a particularly vivid term in Eagle Country's military operational codes: "Broken Arrow."
The "Broken Arrow" incidents publicly disclosed by Eagle Country alone numbered over a hundred, while some undisclosed incidents were presumably still locked away in the classified archives of various nuclear powers.
During the struggle for supremacy between Bear and Eagle Country in the last century, frequent military confrontations meant that Broken Arrow incidents occurred from time to time in Eagle Country. Most of those nuclear warheads had been recovered, but six remained on the vast ocean floor.
Bear had been even more outrageous!
In 1968, Bear had let a K-219 nuclear submarine sink right off Eagle Country's east coast.
It was said that the nuclear submarine had carried thirty nuclear warheads in total. If accidentally detonated, they could instantly wipe out more than half of Eagle Country's coastal regions.
Chen Jue no longer cared whether Bear had done it deliberately. Those were all ancient history anyway.
His sole concern was the nuclear bomb that Eagle Country's navy had lost from the aircraft carrier Ticonderoga off the coast of Japan in 1965.
According to the information collected at the base, after an A-4E Skyhawk carrier aircraft took off from the carrier's deck, its nuclear bomb had accidentally detached and fallen into the sea. Eagle Country's navy had searched the area for months without success, finally concluding that the nuclear warhead was lodged in the seabed eighty miles from a small Japanese island.
Salvaging that nuclear warhead would have been extremely difficult with the technology of the time, or even with present-day salvage technology.