bapu
So, let me see if I got this straight.
No one really knows EXACTLY where or how deep the bomb is. But you say you stood on top of one/it.
By that broad definition we ALL are standing nearly on top of a nuclear war head.
close.... they know it's there in that field, they know it impacted the ground 420 feet from the center line of the road, they know it's down about 180 feet, and they know the ground is much too soft/muddy to get to it.
Of course, they were trying to get to it with 1960's technology..... shovels and heavy equipment like bulldozers. Heavy equipment doesn't do well in the muddy soil of this area's swamps. It's even rumored that a bulldozer was left in the pit they had dug because it got stuck in the deep mud and the water.
There are now some sources saying that with modern technology, retrieving the core would be within the realm of possibility but that would take someone with the authority and of course the finances, to go back and dig down to find that core and get it out of the ground. No one seems to be championing that cause. I guess the thought is to let it stay there and people will forget it's there... problem solved. And that is the very reason the author of the book The Goldsboro Broken Arrow wrote the book.... so it would be documented, with maps and descriptions, and GPS coordinates for all of posterity to not forget about this event and exactly where it occurred.