"the Public Was Never In Danger"

[Lonan3]

'Chain of errors' led to 36-hour US nuclear blunder

 

Nuclear warheads capable of unleashing the equivalent of 10 Hiroshima bombs were mistakenly flown across the United States by a bomber crew who thought they were dummies, and the terrifying security lapse was not discovered for almost 36 hours, it has been revealed.

 

The B-52 took off from the remote Minot air force base in North Dakota with 12 cruise missiles that were being taken out of commission and scheduled for burial in Louisiana. The warheads on the decommissioned missiles should have been replaced with dummies of the same weight, but personnel failed to notice that six of the 12 were fully operational nuclear warheads.

 

The bomber had sat on the tarmac at Minot overnight, with nothing but routine security patrols guarding its payload, and then for a further nine hours at the Barksdale base in Louisiana before the missiles were unloaded and a shocked transport crew recognised the error.

 

Doesn't it all make you feel so much safer?

[bluemonday]

God bless America. The land of the free and the home of the brave...............

[Mr. Sausages]

It's their constitutional right to bare arms. Even nuclear arms.

[bluemonday]

It's their constitutional right to bare arms.

Should be ours as well.

[homarus]

It's their constitutional right to bare arms. Even nuclear arms.

 

I think if that lot had gone off ,pretty much everything would've been "bare"Mr Sausages,!

 

don't you think????

[Albert Tatlock]

Just be glad there's 3000 miles between us. As they continually kill our troops in 'accident after accident', I'm sure there are bound to be numerous goings on that would probably scare the pants off us. In my experience, the equivalent of a UK trained RAF or Navy technican in the USA is around three U.S. people, many of whom shouldn't be let loose with a BB gun - never mind be put in charge of nukes.

[bluemonday]

Considering the Bush habit of attacking places beginning with I, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana and Iowa were lucky.

[Albert Tatlock]

Considering the Bush habit of attacking places beginning with I, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana and Iowa were lucky.

...the Idiot - in the Whitehouse.

[VikingRaider]

Considering the Bush habit of attacking places beginning with I, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana and Iowa were lucky.

 

Kinda unnerving.

Worried of Isle of Man

[spock]

Our research documents indicate that the right to bear arms in the United States of America is as a direct result of British involvement in that continent and the struggle of the people.

[Pook]

I would be more worried if Slim Pickens was de B-52 Bomber pilot.

[Gladys]

It's their constitutional right to bare arms. Even nuclear arms.

But not bare legs!

 

(Think you mean 'bear')

[grant]

It doesn't bear thinking about. The b-52s have been in production for over 50 years now, I wonder how old this one was!

[VinnieK]

Considering the Bush habit of attacking places beginning with I, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana and Iowa were lucky.

 

So far he's attacked one place with a name beginning with I.

[bluemonday]

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Give it time......... He's not finished playing global policeman yet.