Well, OK .... and the reason why an M1-A1 Abrams is called a "tank" is because, back in WWI, they were shipped over to France in containers labeled "Water Tanks."
IMO, the neither the shipment of triggers, nor the subsequent reports of the incident, were accidental.
It is also about having nuclear tipped warheads on the cruise missles when the B-52 landed at Barksdale AFB with the missiles without people not know they were on board.
Just a short time ago there was a report from the Nuclear Inspection people that did not go all that well which I would think on top of the two incidents triggered their resignations. Would say the timing had to do with their report since it is recent.
That, along with the clusterfork at Minot/Barksdale with the five or six nukes that got temporarily lost, are two very obvious reasons. One militia website reported that six left Minot, and five were found the next day at Barksdale. Apparently, they were never missed at Minot. Off we go, Air Force!
A Taiwanese military unit ordered helicopter batteries and received nuclear fuses for ICBMs. What really makes the Air Force look like crap is that the Taiwanese had been trying to give them back for 2 years but nobody would return their e-mails or phone calls.
The “bomb triggers” were probably Krytrons....super-accurate clocks that can synch a high-explosive detonation (Implosion) from MANY directions simultaneously.