Posted on 10/26/2010 4:26:46 PM PDT by Nachum
President Obama was briefed this morning on a power failure at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming that took 50 nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), one-ninth of the U.S. missile stockpile, temporarily offline on Saturday.
The base is a main locus of the United States' strategic nuclear forces. The 90th Missile Wing, headquartered there, controls 150 Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic nuclear missiles. They're on full-time alert and are housed in a variety of bunkers across the base.
On Saturday morning, according to people briefed on what happened, a squadron of ICBMs suddenly dropped down into what's known as "LF Down" status, meaning that the missileers in their bunkers could no longer communicate with the missiles themselves. LF Down status also means that various security protocols built into the missile delivery system, like intrusion alarms and warhead separation alarms, were offline.
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Exactly. O doesnt give a rip. This is beyond his kenyan comprehension.
Not possible. Someone is making a mountain out of an ant hill. There are so many redundant backups on power and communications that this scenario is impossible. Yes, I worked with SAC for many years and we tested each backup routinely.
Remember a little thing called START?
It was a treaty we signed with the USSR, back when that was pretty much the only threat we had to deal with.
He was probably highly irritated even having to take a briefing about military matters.
The place I work has a server room 2 power circuits, each with its own battery backup, which will allow the systems and air conditioning to run for about 20 minutes. But after 10 seconds a natural gas generator kicks in and stays on for 2 minutes after building power has been restored.
I find it had to believe that a power failure would affect so many silos and command centers.
Mark
Thx. Will check it out.
Yes I know, we used to have 2000.
Doesn’t SOUND like anything very dramatic in terms of strange other worldly causes.
China has mobile ICBMs, which was a real destabilizing nono during the Cold War. And I’m sure they lie about the quantity.
It’s just Skynet, doing a systems test.
We have missiles and bombs in storage at Kirkland AFB
Manzano Base to be more precise
One relay will knock your entire data center off line till the box is replaced. I have seen it.
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