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09-06-2007, 02:48 PM
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MISTAKENLY?!!!! Don't you think you would NOTICE a nuclear warhead, let alone 5?!?!
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09-06-2007, 02:53 PM
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there just shouldnt have been a mistake. these werent just bombs. they were NUCLEAR. a light should have gone off for someone, somewhere, to ask "uh, why are we flying these to Louisiana?"
this truly makes me nervous. what mistakes have been made that we dont know about??
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09-06-2007, 02:58 PM
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My 2 fave lines from the article
... but the Air Force on Wednesday said the flight never threatened public safety.
yeah...ok....
and then
"All evidence we have seen so far points to an isolated mistake," Thomas said.
which confirms... "Oops my bad!"
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09-06-2007, 03:18 PM
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WHO is so comfortable that they werent the slightest bit paranoid that they were well within "meet your maker" distance of these things? i would keep two eyes on those things the entire time i was nearby!
now im starting to imagine them leaning on them and smoking cigarettes, or sitting on top eating their lunches!
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09-06-2007, 03:26 PM
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Originally Posted by OneTimeSBX
WHO is so comfortable that they werent the slightest bit paranoid that they were well within "meet your maker" distance of these things? i would keep two eyes on those things the entire time i was nearby!
now im starting to imagine them leaning on them and smoking cigarettes, or sitting on top eating their lunches!
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speaking of ... there was the plane that 'accidentally' machine gunneda jersey school...remember that?
http://www.wqad.com/Global/story.asp?S=2525881
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09-06-2007, 03:37 PM
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the same group of serial screw-ups, perhaps?
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09-06-2007, 05:45 PM
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Originally Posted by OneTimeSBX
WHO is so comfortable that they werent the slightest bit paranoid that they were well within "meet your maker" distance of these things? i would keep two eyes on those things the entire time i was nearby!
now im starting to imagine them leaning on them and smoking cigarettes, or sitting on top eating their lunches!
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You guys are just as funny as the the DoD. When I first heard about this my initial thoughts were how..did..this..."mistakenly"...happen. I mean, think about it.
-Nukes are kept in undisclosed locations under STRICT lock and key. They aren't just laying around with other munitions. Plus they are marked diff as well, so I find it hard to believe that some airman mistakenly did this by himself.
-Nukes are always being transported - How do you think they get to Minot to begin with? The strange thing is, the DoD never talks about the transportation of nuclear warheads, so whats with plastering this all over the news now?
-Lastly, isn't this interesting that this happens a week after Russia resumes their long range bomber flights?
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09-06-2007, 06:27 PM
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Originally Posted by PiKA2001
You guys are just as funny as the the DoD. When I first heard about this my initial thoughts were how..did..this..."mistakenly"...happen. I mean, think about it.
-Nukes are kept in undisclosed locations under STRICT lock and key. They aren't just laying around with other munitions. Plus they are marked diff as well, so I find it hard to believe that some airman mistakenly did this by himself.
-Nukes are always being transported - How do you think they get to Minot to begin with? The strange thing is, the DoD never talks about the transportation of nuclear warheads, so whats with plastering this all over the news now?
-Lastly, isn't this interesting that this happens a week after Russia resumes their long range bomber flights?
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maybe they got mixed in with the WMDs
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09-06-2007, 06:45 PM
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Originally Posted by PiKA2001
You guys are just as funny as the the DoD. When I first heard about this my initial thoughts were how..did..this..."mistakenly"...happen. I mean, think about it.
-Nukes are kept in undisclosed locations under STRICT lock and key. They aren't just laying around with other munitions. Plus they are marked diff as well, so I find it hard to believe that some airman mistakenly did this by himself.
-Nukes are always being transported - How do you think they get to Minot to begin with? The strange thing is, the DoD never talks about the transportation of nuclear warheads, so whats with plastering this all over the news now?
-Lastly, isn't this interesting that this happens a week after Russia resumes their long range bomber flights?
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I agree with you. I was wondering why the "noise" about this now?
I have been by several Air Force bases (including Plattsburg during the real cold war), sub bases and lived in NYC when there were live Nike missiles based near by.
As pointed out, "we" generally do not say much about nukes. So why now?
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09-06-2007, 08:21 PM
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Originally Posted by PiKA2001
-Nukes are always being transported - How do you think they get to Minot to begin with? The strange thing is, the DoD never talks about the transportation of nuclear warheads, so whats with plastering this all over the news now?
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Gee,
Consider me amazed!
I would have guessed that nuclear armed aircraft overflew the US pretty much all the time.
Unless they're intentionally armed, nukes are pretty safe -- even if the vehicle carrying them crashes.
I don't consider this a problem.
Does that make me a hawk?
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09-06-2007, 09:13 PM
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Originally Posted by DeltAlum
Gee,
Consider me amazed!
I would have guessed that nuclear armed aircraft overflew the US pretty much all the time.
Unless they're intentionally armed, nukes are pretty safe -- even if the vehicle carrying them crashes.
I don't consider this a problem.
Does that make me a hawk?
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Not at all - it makes you informed. Really, it's kind of sad that at this point you're either a reactionary or a "hawk", you know?
Nuclear weapons don't work like eggs - if you drop them, they don't just break. The electronic components are actually quite complicated, and (generally) require a detonation system (beyond just "hitting the ground" - most explode before the ground, to increase damage).
So yeah - these things fly all the time, just because "someone didn't know" there likely wasn't any danger, and all that stuff beyond the sketchy circumstances behind this being news-worthy.
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09-10-2007, 03:05 PM
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Originally Posted by DeltAlum
Gee,
Consider me amazed!
I would have guessed that nuclear armed aircraft overflew the US pretty much all the time.
Unless they're intentionally armed, nukes are pretty safe -- even if the vehicle carrying them crashes.
I don't consider this a problem.
Does that make me a hawk?
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i know they have to get where they are getting somehow...but i still think in todays society (post-9/11, the war in Iraq) a closer eye should be kept on things, you know? kind of like when that disease got lost a while back, was it ebola? i dont remember, but with things that serious, mistakes/misplacings cant be done like that!
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09-06-2007, 03:18 PM
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Originally Posted by OneTimeSBX
there just shouldnt have been a mistake. these werent just bombs. they were NUCLEAR. a light should have gone off for someone, somewhere, to ask "uh, why are we flying these to Louisiana?"
this truly makes me nervous. what mistakes have been made that we dont know about??
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I KNOW! And with that extensive history of bombs just falling right off of planes, God . . . I just shudder to think.
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09-06-2007, 07:08 PM
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MISTAKENLY?!!!! Don't you think you would NOTICE a nuclear warhead, let alone 5?!?!
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No crap~!
When I saw that on cnn.com I was 
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