Lost Nuke (1 x 60')
In February of 1950 the world’s largest bomber took off on a secret Cold War mission from Alaska. Inside the belly of the B-36 is a Mk.IV nuclear bomb and its 13 pound plutonium core. The route would take aircraft “075” along the BC coastline until it reached Washington State and headed inland. During the mission engine fires forced the crew of seventeen to abandon the massive bomber over the BC coast. Despite the largest search and rescue operation in Air Force history five of the crewmen, along with the bomber and its nuclear weapon are presumed lost in the depths of the Pacific Ocean.
Three years later a giant aircraft is found high in the Kologet Mountains of northern British Columbia. It’s 075, but strangely it’s 200 miles north of its last known flight path! There are many perplexing questions surrounding the flight of 075. After setting the autopilot, how did 075 change course?
To recreate the enigmatic events surrounding the worlds first “LOST NUKE” Myth Merchant Films will use iconoclastic reenactments of the last flight of 075. The production has secured the use of one of the few surviving B-36’s located at the Aviation Heritage Museum in Ft Worth, Texas. The production will also utilize the latest in photo-realistic animation of the ill-fated mission created by Imagine Engine – one of Canada’s leading special effects studios.
It’s difficult for most Canadian’s to imagine that a nuclear weapon may have sat in the mountains of BC for more than four years before it was discovered. LOST NUKE is an original work of journalism researched and developed by Producer Michael Jorgensen. This story included extensive research conducted through the Freedom of Information Act, the National Archives and the US Air Force. Over the last five decades there has been little if any information written about the last flight of aircraft 075 due to the campaign of misinformation undertaken by the US government. The documentary promises to tell the real story behind the secret mission and rewrite an important chapter in Cold War history.
