You've all heard about it by now - the Air Force flew five nuclear missiles from North Dakota to Louisiana. Accidentally. None of you will be surprised that the story isn't going away, even though the Air Force says it's investigating how the "accident" happened. The simple fact that an "accident" like this could happen is enough to keep me up at night. Especially when the plane probably flew right over our house...
Oops… Unauthorized Nuclear Warheads Transported
USA Today reported on Wednesday that “that five nuclear warheads were transported,” by a B-52 bomber “from Minot Air Force Base, N.D., to Barksdale Air Force Base, La., on Aug. 30.” WTF? The officers who first tipped the “Military Times to the incident who have asked to remain anonymous since they are not authorized to [...]
Another blogger agrees - how the heck could this mistake happen?
It’s still very hard to fathom how something like this can happen, even accidentally. I realize that there are occasional bureaucratic snafus in any multi-layered system, even one as sophisticated as the U.S. military, but I simply cannot wrap my head around the notion that an Air Force bomber accidentally flew six cruise missiles armed [...]
If blogging has any genuinely innovative quality about it, it's surely its ability to, on occasion at least, rapidly deepen one's understanding of an issue by attracting commentary and links from intelligent, informed people. In some 42 posts to my discussion of Larry Johnson's alarm about the loose nukes, a large collection of links were offered by readers to help make sense of what happpened. Andrew Foland, a physics professor runs [...]
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