Well, it's technically the UPI (affiliated with the Times somehow, I believe, through Moon) and they botched the story.
The original article didn't say "official sources" said nukes were found as UPI claims; it says official sources didn't comment, and that the nuke claim was from anonymous "political sources."
A couple of degrees of seperation from the facts, there will be follow up and we'll know in a couple of hours if this dog will hunt.