US flies nuclear weapons over US...by mistake

[OneTimeSBX]

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?

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!

[DeltAlum]

Originally Posted by OneTimeSBX

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!

Sounds like a Tom Clancey book.

It's tough to misplace a nuclear bomb.

Not impossible, I suppose.

Anyway, I'd rather have them on a plane than a train passing through town -- even though they are nearly impossible to detonate accidentally.

[KSig RC]

Originally Posted by OneTimeSBX

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!

Why should things be looked at closer "in today's society"? What does this have to do with 9/11 or the war in Iraq? Don't you always speak out against Iraq, and aren't you trying to have/eat here?

Also aren't you referring to the movie Outbreak?

-RC
--I'm kidding, you're thinking of the CDC though, and there was no danger, so chilllllllllllllllll

[OneTimeSBX]

Originally Posted by KSig RC

Why should things be looked at closer "in today's society"? What does this have to do with 9/11 or the war in Iraq? Don't you always speak out against Iraq, and aren't you trying to have/eat here?

Also aren't you referring to the movie Outbreak?

-RC
--I'm kidding, you're thinking of the CDC though, and there was no danger, so chilllllllllllllllll

i remember that movie. there were what, 16 people left on earth at the end lol!

chalk it up to paranoia. you are right, that type of mistake is just as bad twenty years ago as it was last week. maybe its the constant report of terrorist cells here, there, everywhere! someone, somewhere, is always plotting to blow up/destroy/crash something. now theyve publicized a big US "oops!" and that just makes me a bit weary about any group who is looking for that next best way to teach us a lesson!

ps geez, i didnt know anyone paid attention to my Iraqi rants!

[DeltAlum]

Originally Posted by OneTimeSBX

...maybe its the constant report of terrorist cells here, there, everywhere! someone, somewhere, is always plotting to blow up/destroy/crash something.

There's a terrorist behind every Bush.

Wait, that should be bush with a small "b" I think.

Just a little joke.

[jon1856]

By Joby Warrick and Walter Pincus
Updated: 11:11 p.m. ET Sept 22, 2007


Just after 9 a.m. on Aug. 29, a group of U.S. airmen entered a sod-covered bunker on North Dakota's Minot Air Force Base with orders to collect a set of unarmed cruise missiles bound for a weapons graveyard. They quickly pulled out a dozen cylinders, all of which appeared identical from a cursory glance, and hauled them along Bomber Boulevard to a waiting B-52 bomber.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20926465/

[jon1856]

U.S. ties missile mix-up to reduced nuclear focus

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Air Force mistakenly flew nuclear weapons across the United States last year as a result of eroding discipline spawned by a diminished strategic focus on nuclear weapons, officials said on Tuesday.
A panel of Air Force and independent investigators told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the increased importance of conventional combat missions since the 1991 Gulf War has undermined nuclear-related training and experience.......
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNe...edName=topNews