WASHINGTON, Sept. 5, 2007
Nuke-Armed B-52 Mistakenly Flown Over U.S.
Commander Fired After Bomber Armed With Six Nuclear Warheads Flew Over Several States
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A U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber. (AP)
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Rep. Ike Skelton, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, called the mishandling of the weapons "deeply disturbing" and said the committee would press the military for details.
The plane was carrying Advanced Cruise Missiles from Minot Air Force Base, N.D, to Barksdale Air Force Base, La., on Aug. 30, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of a Defense Department policy not to confirm information on nuclear weapons.
The missiles, which are being decommissioned, were mounted onto pylons on the bomber's wings and it is unclear why the warheads had not been removed beforehand.
The Air Combat Command has ordered a command-wide stand down on Sept. 14 to review procedures, officials said. They said there was minimal risk to crews and the public because of safety features designed into the munitions.
In addition to the munitions squadron commander who was relieved of his duties, crews involved with the mistaken load — including ground crew workers — have been temporarily decertified for handling munitions, one official said.
The investigation is expected to take several weeks.
The incident was first reported in Military Times newspaper.
"There is no more serious issue than the security and proper handling of nuclear weapons," Skelton said in a statement Wednesday. "The American people, our friends, and our potential adversaries must be confident that the highest standards are in place when it comes to our nuclear arsenal."
Skelton, D-Mo., said his committee will pursue answers on the classified matter "to ensure that the Air Force and the Department of Defense address this particular incident and strengthen controls more generally."
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See all 146 CommentsUse your brain fool
Posted by mocaleo at 12:56 PM : Sep 06, 2007
I am sure my dumb azz is smarter than the little pea brain on your shoulders. You had already proven your ignorance before...must you continually prove it. Now take the towel of your head and wipe the drool on the side of your mouth and clean up your runny nose little boy.
dnc are like john adams and want to give the jihadist their lunch money hoping they will leave us alone....
gop are like thomas jefferson and want to spend their lunch money on weapons and go kick the jihadists in their arses.....
What Thomas Jefferson learned from the Muslim book of jihad
Thomas Jefferson knew about fascist nazi islam..... he killed plenty of them....
In 1786 Jefferson and John Adams went to negotiate with Tripoli''s envoy to London, Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman or (Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja). They asked him by what right he extorted money and took slaves. Jefferson reported to Secretary of State John Jay, and to the Congress:
The ambassador answered us that [the right] was founded on the Laws of the Prophet (Mohammed), that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have answered their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to heaven.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War
http://www.usvetdsp.com/jan07/jeff_quran.htm
muslim justifies slavery and piracy%u2026
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So let''s see, people in our government plan to bring down the twin towers. Hummmmm, then they get more people to plant the charges, Hummmmm, and all this goes on while the cleaning guys are sweeping up and security is asleep. Is that about right?
It''s been my experience that "three" people, connected with our government, can keep a secret from the Washington Post if "two'' of them are dead.
I''m not sure what wasted my time more, this non news story or you dimwits.
What a disappointment when I found out they were doing nothing more then what they did 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year throwout the 1950''s and 1960''s.
They violated a very important treaty Johnson signed with the Russkies, as Slim Pickin''s, called them. Of course it was all a mistake--(snicker snicker)
Posted by Hwy71So
It''s overwrought, overcrowded, and over "whined" by them, it''s CBS what did you expect? Just try to humor them , inbreeding causes more ills then you think.
thanks for proving my point. By the way I get my news from many sources and then make a decision. Yes Fox is one of them and they do happen to be the most watched, but they are not the only one, just the most unbiased.
Posted by Hwy71So at 11:04 AM : Sep 06, 2007
Hwy71So, It was good you registered...now you can see just how irrational some of the far left are. As if 911 was an inside job...morons all of them.
Their hatred blinds them to reason and fact concerning 911...
Stick around and enjoy the laughs...
Posted by Consciousnes at 09:32 AM : Sep 06, 2007
Well, that''s cool. So, as long as they have never dropped one, that''s okay, just keep doing it, nothing will ever happen?
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Again, the operative word here is "mistake" The orions were not flying by mistake, these bombs were.
Yo Larsie, still waiting for you to answer my previous questions to you, I thought you went off to find something to cut and paste in rebuttal, but I see you couldn''t find anything, as expected.
Jij praat heel machtig, maar heb jij halemaal nix om te zeggen. Lul...
I just hope the next time we waste gas its not Hillory. Hope it dont drop in the back yard. I don''t want to rake the lawn again :-)
Yes we have flown with them for over 50 years, but "by mistake" is the operative term here. How could such a dangerous thing happen by mistake?
And I seem to remember we actually did drop one by mistake once, into the ocean off the California coast if my memory serves...
Posted by brianbwb at 09:27 AM : Sep 06, 2007
hahahahaha and what utopia do you come from haji... hahahahaha
New yorkers are famous worldwide for not seeing anything, but claiming to have seen everything.
Anyone dressed as a ConEd worker could assemble bombs throughout the building, over several weeks, or months, and the guy sweeping the floor would not think anything untoward.
As far as witnesses to the explosions, they were pretty powerful, anyone close enough to see detail would probably have been turned to hamburger.
Don''t get me wrong, I am not insisting it happened, only that given our corruption, and the amounts involved, it is not impossible.
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