Given disposal options 50 years ago, U.S. Army decided to dump munitions-filled barrels in Lake Superior

March 6, 2013 - 12:29 — glbm

The 25 barrels recovered last summer from the depths of Lake Superior were dumped there 50 years ago under orders from the U.S. Army. Inside were scrapped cluster bombs — a new weapon considered top-secret by U.S. officials who didn’t want the design to fall into enemy hands at the height of the Cold War.

But exactly who floated the idea of dumping the scrap bomb parts into Lake Superior remains unclear.

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