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Originally posted by detachedindividual
How on earth do you even get access to any nuke without it being signed off by a very senior power?
The security in these places is supposed to be immense, and yet we're expected to believe that a bunch of AF guys accidentally gained access to nuclear weapons, loaded them up, and flew across the country, and all simply through Human Error?
The first error is obviously taking real nukes from one secure location instead of dummy missiles from another. But this simply cannot happen.
Surely a person of high rank would have to have an order from above just to gain access these weapons, and then supervise their transport. And he didn't ask any questions? I find that hard to believe.
And the fact that not all discussion and investigation of this was done in a public forum makes it even more suspicious.
They'd already admitted that there had been massive failures, so what else is there to hide from the public if that is all it was, an error?
I stand by my assessment that a government agency is up to something, and they either tried to make a nuke "unaccounted for" (or perhaps succeeded), or it was a practice run for a leg of a plan.
I think these guys on the ground knew what they were doing under orders. And someone found it all a bit too suspicious, had a conscience, and blabbed about it in an effort to warn the public. The person who did this was probably the first unfortunate guy to die in mysterious circumstances.
Originally posted by cropmuncher
I have a question but being uninformed on the subject the answer might seem a little obvious to some so i apolagise in advance but i was just curious as to wether a nuke missing means just one warhead or a device that carries multiple warheads?
Thanks.
Originally posted by bpg131313
Originally posted by detachedindividual
I stand by my assessment that a government agency is up to something, and they either tried to make a nuke "unaccounted for" (or perhaps succeeded), or it was a practice run for a leg of a plan.
If that were true though, why wait all this time to use it?
Originally posted by FlyersFan
Originally posted by questioningall
if I was in the Air Force, I would say - I do not want to be assigned to Minot, too many people die there.
People in the military are not allowed to turn down assignments. There is no way you'd be allowed to say something like that. If you tried -you'd be brought up on charges.
Staging Nukes for Iran? By Larry Johnson 05 Sep 2007 My buddy... reminded me that the only times you put weapons on a plane is when they are on alert or if you are tasked to move the weapons to a specific site... Barksdale Air Force Base is being used as a jumping off point for Middle East operations... Why would we want to preposition nuclear weapons at a base conducting Middle East operations? His final point was to observe that someone on the inside obviously leaked the info that the planes were carrying nukes. A B-52 landing at Barksdale is a non-event. A B-52 landing with nukes. That is something else. Now maybe there is an innocent explanation for this? I can’t think of one. What is certain is that the pilots of this plane did not just make a last minute decision to strap on some nukes and take them for a joy ride... Did someone at Barksdale try to indirectly warn the American people that the Bush Administration is staging nukes for Iran?