[pessimizer]

> The logistics involving nuclear weaponry are so extreme and involve so many people that something getting lost is more likely than some kind of crime.

The logistics being so extreme and involving so many people is evidence against loss, not for it. Also, the US placing nukes in a place that only a few silent people are aware of is not a crime.

> Do you think presidents can smuggle a nuclear warhead across borders with a donkey or something?

Do you think they can lose them down the kitchen sink drain, or accidentally leave them in a cab?

[happyopossum]

Did you read how these were lost? So in your world an entire B-47 crew disappeared in 1956 just so Eisenhower could “launder” a pair of nuke cores (not entire bombs) to <waves hands> somebody.

Nobody from the B-47 crew has ever been heard from again, and nobody, anywhere saw the plane ever again.

And in your world this is more likely than a plane crashing in the Med?