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Failure Shuts Down Squadron of Nuclear Missiles
The Atlantic ^
| 10/26/10
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Posted on 10/26/2010 4:26:46 PM PDT by Nachum
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posted on
10/26/2010 4:26:50 PM PDT
by
Nachum
To: Nachum
We had a 12 year old SUN UNIX server at work. We had to nurse it just to keep running. Things get old and they must be updated.
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posted on
10/26/2010 4:29:17 PM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(It is Satan's fault)
To: Nachum
Any reports of UFO activity in the area?
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posted on
10/26/2010 4:29:48 PM PDT
by
silverleaf
("This is not an election on November 2 . This is a restraining order" P.J. O'Rourke)
To: Nachum; TigerLikesRooster; OldMissileer
This was deliberate...probably the ChiComs.
To: silverleaf
That’s the FIRST thing I thought of too!
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posted on
10/26/2010 4:30:37 PM PDT
by
BreitbartSentMe
((Ex-Dem since 2001 *Folding@Home for the Gipper - Join the FReeper Folders*))
To: Nachum
Excuse me for asking a silly question: You mean that those sites don’t have axillary power backup? Like a diesel electric generator? Something doesn’t sound quite right.
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posted on
10/26/2010 4:33:20 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("If You Don't Read The News You're Uniformed, If You Do Read The News You're Misinformed")
To: Bush_Democrat; silverleaf
Me too. What does George Noory know, and when did he know it?
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posted on
10/26/2010 4:33:53 PM PDT
by
Brucifer
(Proud member of the Double Secret Reloading Underground.)
To: Nachum
Why was this leaked? A reason to stop that program. Having problems so 0 does away with them?
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posted on
10/26/2010 4:34:26 PM PDT
by
ColdOne
(GOP. Gutless Old Politicians :^)) :0) :{))
To: Nachum
President Obama was briefed this morning on a power failure at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming that took 50 nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), one-ninth of the U.S. missile stockpile, temporarily offline on Saturday. Did he smile?
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posted on
10/26/2010 4:34:31 PM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: Nachum
Dems and envior weenies will make sure we have solar power backup for the missile silos.
10
posted on
10/26/2010 4:35:47 PM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(Palin/Christie 2012)
To: Quix
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posted on
10/26/2010 4:38:57 PM PDT
by
JennysCool
(My hypocrisy goes only so far)
To: Rebelbase
If this had happened during the Clinton Admin we would have no reason for concern because he lost the nuclear launch codes anyway !
To: Nachum
Reading the article, it was not a power failure. They had communications network problems and could not isolate the offending launch control center, so they took the entire squadron offline and brought up LCCs one by one.
This is troubleshooting.
I suppose they could have shut them off one by one, but since all 50 missiles were FUBAR, the approach of shutting them all down first may have brought more of them back on line faster.
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posted on
10/26/2010 4:42:47 PM PDT
by
magellan
To: magellan
it was not a power failure. They had communications network problems To most so-called journalists those are identical problems :-)
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posted on
10/26/2010 4:46:43 PM PDT
by
NCjim
("You can't pick up a turd by the clean end", Bob Lonsberry on Obamacare)
To: Nachum
remember when the "squirrel chewed through a cable" in Connecticut, shutting down the NASDAQ stock market a few years ago.
Nah, nobody remembers that.
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posted on
10/26/2010 4:49:41 PM PDT
by
the invisib1e hand
(defeat islam (with music). or should that be, "by any means necessary"? hunh.)
To: NCjim
They also wrote this: “are housed in a variety of bunkers across the base...”
Missles are housed in silos scattered across a wide area, not necessarily including the base itself.
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posted on
10/26/2010 4:52:45 PM PDT
by
ops33
(Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
To: Nachum
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posted on
10/26/2010 4:56:10 PM PDT
by
Williams
(It's the policies, stupid.)
To: EGPWS
I know why would they even bother telling 0. Its not like he cares. He probably told them to scrap the whole base!
To: Williams
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posted on
10/26/2010 4:57:13 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
To: MHGinTN
According to Wikipedia they are not currently Mirvs. Maybe its safe to not MIRV if you are not in a cold war situation?
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