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."

Comments

Re:Three and a half hours is a long time

[p-cubed]

Strikes me that the "mistake" is a cover for a deliberate movement of the missles, that was either accidentally or intentionally leaked. Most likely: message to Iran that nuclear weapons are being actively positioned. I put NOTHING past this dysadministration.

Re:We got some flyin' to do

[PopeRatzo]

That having been said, they weren't in a condition that they would of detonated if the plane had crashed; the worst would of been a radiation leak that could of been cleaned up. The military has egg on their face but no-one was put in danger.

And you know this...how? Oh, I forgot, this administration and their pet military has shown themselves to always tell the truth. For all you know, they were on their way to finish the job Katrina started, with one of those experimental nukes that only kills liberals.

I could have done without this reminder that the Bush Administration has access to a vast arsenal of nuclear weapons.

OK, show of hands: who feels safer now than they did 4 years ago? Put your hand down, Osama.

Re:Tell us again?

[mpatton]

Perhaps dropping the first nuke can be justified by arguing along those lines. But dropping the second nuke was simply murder.

Re:Ascii art

[PitaBred]

Yay for illiterate, blindly patriotic morons. Let's drop us some bombs on people that we can't distinguish from the general population, that'll show 'em good, just like in Vietnam!

Re:Ascii art

[PitaBred]

And there you go proving my point. I can respect that I have these liberties, and the people that made it possible, and still not agree with the way things are happening. But a picture with a misspelling on it that a 4th grader wouldn't make, combined with the "let's bomb the terr'ists" attitude that shows a complete ignorance of WHAT MAKES TERRORISTS WANT TO KILL US, makes you an illiterate redneck. I don't have much of a sense of humor about ignorant things we do that make other nations hate us, sorry. Must be something wrong with me.