Air Force Mistakenly Transports Live Nukes Across America

kernel panic attack writes "Surely the late Stanley Kubrick is somewhere smiling at this one. Forbes.com has a story about a B-52 Bomber that mistakenly flew 6-nuclear tipped cruise missles across several states last week. The 3-hour flight took the plane from Minot Air Force Base, N.D, to Barksdale Air Force Base, La., on Aug. 30. The incident was so serious that President Bush and Defense Secretary Robert Gates were quickly informed and Gates has asked for daily briefings on the Air Force probe, said Defense Department press secretary Geoff Morrell."

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Sum of all fears 2

[ghoul]

In this episode Jack Ryan works for the Russian nuclear agency and is worried about the safety of American nuclear warheads so he comes to the US to inspect B 52s. Meanwhile someone explodes a nuke in Moscow and everyone thinks its the Americans as they have a hardliner president. The rest of the plot can remain the same and we have a new blockbuster. Or not. Americans are too chauvinistic to appreciate they are just as big doofuses as the Russians so while movies showing the russian nukes are in danger of getting lost work in Hollywood the same would not work for US nukes even though the Russians have actually never lost a nuke yet while the Americans just lost it again today. I say again for everyone knows they lost nuke material three times- Russia, France and Israel all got their nukes from lost American material.

Re:We got some flyin' to do

[Anonymous Coward]

That's pretty much the entire purpose of a weapon: to create an important distinction between the one doing the pointing and the one being pointed at. It's a pity the US doesn't also make greater distinction between friends and foes.