User blog comment:PitaKang/Broken Arrow/@comment-32656-20120503194448

The one thing that makes no sense is that the Israelis would leave it/not know it was there. It's a nuclear bomb mishap.

Simply put, until they could make sure it was gone or secured, they'd keep looking. I mean, the US government still checks periodically on weapons it lost decades ago, buried under a lot of mud in a riverbed. Others lost in deep oceans, wit the exact location unknown, are also still looked for periodically.

Israel has a pretty good idea of where it'd be. They'd find it pretty fast.