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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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 CommentsHow screwed up is our military that it cannot keep track of these bombs?
Unfcuking believable that 6 armmed nukes can mistakenly be transported anywhere and then say: ""They said there was minimal risk to crews and the public because of safety features designed into the munitions.""
Nuts a gunna roll...then heads!
Of course, the fact that he will have bankrupted the former USA and destroyed the US military in the process is "irrelevant" to him.
SIG HEIL, BUSH!!!
Commander Fired After Bomber Armed With Six Nuclear Warheads Flew Over Several States
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5, 2007
And people wonder how 9/11 was pulled off? Nuke-Armed B-52 Mistakenly Flown Over U.SWASHINGTON, this was no mistake but that''s how the media has been told, so the story goes. If one nuke were dropped would that be the suitcase variety?
IF YOU HAVE A GUN IN HOME SOMEONE WILL BE HURT SOONER OR LATER...THAT''S FOR SURE...
It was reported the B-52 had a bumper sticker reading:
"Jesus is my co-pilot"
It did not go over Washington. It went from North Dakota to Louisianna so it most likely went over North Dakota/Minnesota, South Dakota/Iowa, Missouri/Kansas, Arkansas/Oklahoma and parts of Louisianna.
The weapons weren''t missing, they knew where they were. And besides, what makes you think that armed bombers don''t criss-cross the U.S. every day?
Armorers have the ability to select the yield of the resulting explosion in-flight, a capability sometimes referred to as "dial-a-yield" but more properly Variable yield. At one end of the scale, perhaps using just the boosted fission primary, the W80 delivers about 5 kilotons of TNT, at the other it delivers about 150 kt.
Posted by fastfredy1
Don''t worry fastfredy1 I won''t tell anyone.
It will be our secret.
No one knows the password to my computer so our secret won''t get out.
Re: "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."
Sounds like al-CIA''da was experimenting with a new method of delivering their next attack.
Posted by fastfredy1
does that mean you quack like a duck if you don''t cover your azz?
Posted by fastfredy1
does that mean you quack like a duck if you don''''t cover your azz?
No it means I am not afraid of nukes anymore. You should read mor on them and how they are protected
Posted by fastfredy1 at 02:01 PM : Sep 05, 2007
So did I !
PS...Do not look at the flash !!
Posted by IOWEIGN at 02:07 PM : Sep 05, 2007
Where do we park the B-52s carrying nukes when they are on standby?
Posted by V_1618 at 02:00 PM : Sep 05, 2007
The 9/11 part II? Cheney must be bummed none of the bombs were dropped.
Two stage radiation implosion thermonuclear weapon.
The 5 kiloton low yield option presumably represents the boosted primary yield alone, while the high yield adds the full secondary yield . The lowest yield option available for the B61, 0.3 kt, is not available with the W80, presumably because a yield this low is of no strategic interest.
Arming and fuzing system weighs 10 pounds.
Here is a speculative interpretation of the design:
The fission primary is located in the larger diameter cylindrical part of the body, the aft section of which contains the firing electronics, tritium reservoir, and pulse neutron initiator tube. The spherical thermonuclear secondary is in the smaller diameter rounded "nose" of the warhead.
The outer weapon casing is made of aluminum and is lined with uranium to form the radiation case. The primary consists of a spherical IHE shell surrounding the pit which is made of a hollow bonded beryllium/plutonium double shell with a two-point air lens to create the implosion. The void inside the hollow pit is filled with deuterium-tritium gas at detonation time. The secondary is a sphere consisting of an outer pusher/tamper layer of oralloy (highly enriched uranium) and an inner shell of lithium-6 deuteride. The secondary is hollow and is filled with deuterium-tritium gas at detonation time to produce "hot spot" ignition at the moment of maximum compression.
I don''t suppose I''ll ever get to hear the explanation, but I bet it will be a doozy.
Posted by red164 at 02:23 PM : Sep 05, 2007
Their mission was to narrow the field down to two Democrats in the Presidential race, Kucinich and Gravel
Category Description
(none) Mechanical combination lock
A Four-digit, 10-position electromechanical coded switch (most retired or replaced by 1987)
B Ground & airplane-operable 4-digit coded switch (later version with limited try followed by lockout until reset)
C Single-code 6-digit switch, limited try followed by lockout
D Multiple-code 6-digit switch, limited try followed by lockout
F Multiple-code 12-digit switch, limited try followed by lockout
Category Description
(none) Mechanical combination lock
A Four-digit, 10-position electromechanical coded switch (most retired or replaced by 1987)
B Ground & airplane-operable 4-digit coded switch (later version with limited try followed by lockout until reset)
C Single-code 6-digit switch, limited try followed by lockout
D Multiple-code 6-digit switch, limited try followed by lockout
F Multiple-code 12-digit switch, limited try followed by lockout
are showing a little of thier true colors.
why is this even an issue? nothing more than just to fuel speculations..allegations and conspiracies.
I bet if it was a terrorist..these same people who find someway to justify it.
"Fire resistant pits" (FRPs) that prevent molten plutonium from escaping in a fire (probably by containing it within the high melting point beryllium reflector shell);
"Insensitive high explosives" (IHE), these use the explosive TATB which is highly resistant to "cooking off" in a fire, or being detonated by mechanical shock;
Insulating containers may be used to reduce the influx of heat from a fire,
"Limited retry" may be used in a PAL. This disables the PAL if the wrong combination is entered too many times, requiring factory service to restore (the same way ATMs will eat a ATM card if the wrong PIN number is entered repeatedly).
Weapons can also use active self-damaging mechanisms that break bomb components, requiring factory repair before the weapon can be fired, if tampering (including excessive retrys) is detected. Recent weapons have "noviolent" (non-explosive) disablement systems. These systems can also be activated by remote command in some weapons.
wow, I''m impressed.
can you cook and iron?
some where out there there is a cut and past partner for you.
god - I pay these guys my hard-earned taxes?
And you dumb scared poodles are worried about terrorist.......creating the mushroom cloud that will kill you........Amazing just Amazing something like war heads, war heads can be handled mistakenly.......
*** in toilets and NUKES war heads flying overhead across the country.
And that idiot Bush and his sect members in the pentagon, congress, party and press reenacting Ground Hog Iraq Day 1,507 ...........
why must I pay taxes and fund these fools, Lord WHY.
There is no more serious issue than the security and proper handling of nuclear weapons, Skelton said in a statement Wednesday.
YA THINK.
Rep. Skelton, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee
Since when did they make Red Skeleton in chairman?
"Sounds like al-CIA''''da was experimenting with a new method of delivering their next attack. FeelFree1
Paranoia strikes deep.
"You all need to take a reading comprehension course." zigzag14
Exactly, zigzag14. Even if SeeBS did their very best to distort the truth - "Nuke-Armed B-52 Mistakenly Flown Over U.S.
Commander Fired After Bomber Armed With Six Nuclear Warheads Flew Over Several States"
Most people never get past the headlines, and make several assumptions based upon them. Which is precisely why many liberals are running around at this very moment like chicken little.
True enough, it should never have happened, but that they weren''t armed proves that the failsafe works.
Posted by speakinup at 02:38 PM : Sep 05, 2007
So you know for a fact if one of those bombs dropped it wouldn''t have blow up?
Come on even a *** GOP drop out like you speakinup should be able to figure out what''s going on.
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How many more times? Must the GOP diehards hear it from the mouth former BUSH loyalists?
Top aide brands Bush a liar
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=479989&in_page_id=1811
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Prison Planet
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
*** Cheney''s former legal counsel David Addington threatened the consequence of mass terror attacks in order to silence Department of Justice lawyer Jack Goldsmith when he questioned the legality of the warrantless wiretapping program, according to Goldsmith''s new book.
The Terror Presidency details how Bush administration officials dangled the fear of terror over critic''s heads every time a whimper of dissent emerged over attempts to beef executive power.
David Addington is now Cheney''s chief of staff and was once described by U.S. News and World Report as "the most powerful man you''ve never heard of." Immediately after 9/11, he pushed the argument that the NSA should be given carte blanche to wiretap purely domestic telephone calls and e-mails, a complete violation of the 4th Amendment.
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