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Nuclear Warheads Mistakenly Flown Across U.S.
http://www.nbc5i.com/news/14047820/detail.html ^
| 9/5/07
| staff
Posted on 09/05/2007 6:51:13 AM PDT by Rb ver. 2.0
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- An Air Force squadron commander has been relieved of his command after five nuclear weapons were mistakenly loaded aboard a B-52 and flown cross-country from North Dakota to Louisiana last week, NBC News reported.
Five 150-kiloton warheads were attached to cruise missiles that were flown from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana to be dismantled, but they should have been removed, according to officials.
Military officials insist the warheads remained "under control" at all times and did not pose a danger. Click here to find out more!
The squadron commander, however, was immediately relieved of duty and is expected to lose his nuclear certification because "the Air Force has lost all confidence in his ability to handle nuclear weapons."
TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana; US: North Dakota
KEYWORDS: b52; bomber; nuclearwarheads; one
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To: F15Eagle
do you have the URL for the other thread? Here.
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posted on
09/05/2007 9:47:43 AM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Eastbound
Somebody should sell the idea to Tom Clancey. He'd love it. Make the bad guys as neo-Nazis blowing up Baltimore, and you may have a movie.
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posted on
09/05/2007 9:50:29 AM PDT
by
Jonah Hex
("How'd you get that scar, mister?" "Nicked myself shaving.")
To: Jonah Hex
“We wasted years getting jerked around by the Chechnyians,” said bin Laden, “Then we realized ‘Army Surplus’, so we got on-line...”
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posted on
09/05/2007 9:52:14 AM PDT
by
M. Dodge Thomas
(Opinion based on research by an eyewear firm, which surveyed 100 members of a speed dating club.)
To: Rb ver. 2.0
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posted on
09/05/2007 9:52:33 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
To: Old Retired Army Guy
"Should have gone to Iran!"
Yeah, when are we going to purposefully fly one over Iran...
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posted on
09/05/2007 10:06:56 AM PDT
by
Dacus943
To: Rb ver. 2.0
five nuclear weapons were >>> mistakenly <<< loaded aboard a B-52 and flown cross-country I am finding this hard to buy off on.
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posted on
09/05/2007 12:07:51 PM PDT
by
TLI
( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
To: Rb ver. 2.0
In Clancy’s book Sum of all Fears, the nuke was an islambomb homemade job. I never saw the movie. No, the bomb was laoded onto an Israeli A-4. It was not supposed to take off with the weapon...somebody screwed up and it went out to hit an Arab armored column with the pilot thinking he was going to drop conventional stuff. Then he got blown out of the sky and the bomb buried itself in some farmer's field.
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posted on
09/05/2007 12:19:52 PM PDT
by
Mr. Silverback
(Libs obviously don’t believe pro-lifers are terrorists, or they'd placate us by banning abortion.)
To: TLI
I am finding this hard to buy off on. Something very fishy here....
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posted on
09/05/2007 5:46:22 PM PDT
by
eldoradude
(Think for yourself!)
To: TLI
"five nuclear weapons were >>> mistakenly <<< loaded aboard a B-52 and flown cross-country"Shoot, a feller could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with that stuff.
To: battlegearboat
Shoot, a feller could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with that stuff. Or Dallas. ;-)
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09/06/2007 7:37:53 AM PDT
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Jonah Hex
("How'd you get that scar, mister?" "Nicked myself shaving.")
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