US flies nuclear weapons over US...by mistake

[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