[Allegra]

I’m suspicious. If it happened, why was it leaked to the press? Sounds like notification to Ahmadinejad that American nukes are on the move.

But then. . . I’m paranoid.

I wondered exactly the same thing when I heard about this earlier today.

And I'm not particularly paranoid.

[Cicero]

I also wondered. Not that it happened, but why it was leaked to the press.

Many many years ago, I worked as a Hawk Missile Pulse Acquisition Radar repairman at a guided missile test base just south of White Sands. I heard a story that someone in a visiting contingent had lost the paperwork on a Nike missile. To solve the discrepancy—having a missile but no paperwork on it—they loaded the excess missile up in a deuce and a half, drove it out into the desert, and buried it.

Then the paperwork matched the inventory again. Problem solved.

These things happen. No doubt, if they become known, the culprits should be duly punished. But what purpose is served by leaking the story to the Washington Post? (As if I had to ask.)