For a small town paper, this was a rather excellent article.
I doubt the kind of specific and detailed information you and I and others really want will come out until the courts martial start up, if they do.
I’ll grant that it seemed to cover his comments well. I wasn’t faulting the paper. It just seems he didn’t provide much information that pertained to the incident.
As you say, it may come out later.
Not even then. The Pentagon traditionally does the "can neither confirm nor deny" dance on any incident involving nukes, and there have been several over the last half-dozen decades. The disclosures on this incident, vague as they are, are unprecedented.
See my post #40.
If ANY of those mandatory steps had been taken, this would never have happened.
So the answer to the question “how?”, is NONE of those steps were taken.
It starts with #7.