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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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1 posted on 09/05/2007 6:51:14 AM PDT by Rb ver. 2.0
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Nuke this thread, someone posted it two minutes prior to this one.


2 posted on 09/05/2007 6:53:25 AM PDT by Rb ver. 2.0 (Reunite Gondwanaland!)
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To: Rb ver. 2.0
"Will you please stop shooting at the thermonuclear warheads?"
3 posted on 09/05/2007 6:56:18 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: Rb ver. 2.0

I keep one of those nuclear bombs under the seat cushion in my boat... You mean you’re not supposed to do that?


5 posted on 09/05/2007 6:59:29 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: F15Eagle

I heard Jack Baur did a high elevation free fall to board the plain, disarm the nukes, and turn it around ...


7 posted on 09/05/2007 7:01:40 AM PDT by Scythian
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To: Rb ver. 2.0
Nuclear surety is an unforgiving mistress. I was in a nuclear-capable artillery unit in the Guard and no mistakes were allowed. None whatsoever!

This squadron commander knew the rules. No sympathy.

9 posted on 09/05/2007 7:09:04 AM PDT by Redleg Duke ("All gave some, and some gave all!")
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To: Rb ver. 2.0

I was a Terrier wing-and-fin man. It’s unbelievable someone lost focus to that degree.


10 posted on 09/05/2007 7:17:14 AM PDT by Thrownatbirth (.....when the sidewalks are safe for the little guy.)
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To: Rb ver. 2.0
Sound like all the ingredients for a good spy thriller. Lessee, we could have one of the bombs rattle loose and bury itself in Death Valley, not far from a prospector's shack. The prospector finds the bomb a few weeks later and thinking it was a dud, covers it with some tailings and forgets about it for a few years. Needing to replace a water trough that fed his sluice, he remembers the dud and decides to dis-assemble the missile and salvage the casing.

Somebody should sell the idea to Tom Clancey. He'd love it.

11 posted on 09/05/2007 7:29:18 AM PDT by Eastbound
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To: Rb ver. 2.0

Should have gone to Iran!


12 posted on 09/05/2007 7:29:38 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: Eastbound
It's been done: Broken Arrow
13 posted on 09/05/2007 7:31:33 AM PDT by Rb ver. 2.0 (Reunite Gondwanaland!)
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Just my weak attempt at humor. Clancey already did it. “The Sum Of All Fears.”


14 posted on 09/05/2007 7:35:57 AM PDT by Eastbound
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

Iran might have been safer than Louisiana.


15 posted on 09/05/2007 7:38:03 AM PDT by Cvengr (The violence of evil is met with the violence of righteousness, justice, love and grace.)
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To: Rb ver. 2.0
Click here to find out more!

No I won't.
Forgive me if I pass.

Only a technoidiot would deem this a "big" story!

16 posted on 09/05/2007 7:56:04 AM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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>>>Iran might have been safer than Louisiana.<<<

Yep!! My first thought is that I wish these had been found "inadvertently" included in a shipment of war material to the Middle East. ,p> Just a gentle reminder to Ahmadinejoke that we, already, have more nuclear weapons than we can count.

17 posted on 09/05/2007 8:21:08 AM PDT by HardStarboard (Take No Prisoners - We're Out of Qurans)
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>>>Iran might have been safer than Louisiana.<<<

Yep!! My first thought is that I wish these had been found "inadvertently" included in a shipment of war material to the Middle East.

Just a gentle reminder to Ahmadinejoke that we, already, have more nuclear weapons than we can count.

18 posted on 09/05/2007 8:22:28 AM PDT by HardStarboard (Take No Prisoners - We're Out of Qurans)
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To: Eastbound

In Clancy’s book Sum of all Fears, the nuke was an islambomb homemade job. I never saw the movie.


19 posted on 09/05/2007 8:59:29 AM PDT by Rb ver. 2.0 (Reunite Gondwanaland!)
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To: Publius6961

You’re forgiven.


20 posted on 09/05/2007 9:00:13 AM PDT by Rb ver. 2.0 (Reunite Gondwanaland!)
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