Over the past 80 years the United States has built tens of thousands of nuclear bombs. The problem is that several of them have simply gone missing, without a trace. These six weapons are the United States' broken arrows.
Sources
https://www.atomicarchive.com/almanac/broken-arrows/index.html;
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/command-and-control-broken-arrows-how-many-nuclear-accidents-have-we-had/
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220804-the-lost-nuclear-bombs-that-no-one-can-find
Image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon#/media/File:Little_Boy_bomb.jpg
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