Typing error by U.S. stenographer causes nuclear scare in Sudan

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A stenographer for the U.S. Congress generated alarming headlines in the Sudanese press this week by giving the mistaken impression the United States conducted nuclear tests in the African country in 1962 and 1970.

Story at:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=2&u=/nm/20050310/od_nm/odd_sudan_nuclear_dc

[htuttle]

1. Nonsense! The Ministry of Information Retrieval never makes mistakes!

Oh, I'm certain of it. It should have said 'Tuttle' instead of 'Buttle'...

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2. Maybe they meant to type "Iran" instead of "Iraq" - that's why no WMDs?

[The Doctor.]

4. Who could have accounted for one little

fly?

[The Doctor.]

3. Wow... reminds me of the metric translation error that

resulted in the 'acid culture'.

I believe it was 1957 when a US intelligence agent apprehended information that the USSR was seeking a few ml of Lysergic diethylamide... (acid)

Being ignorant of the metric system, the agency assumed the Russians were seeking several *KILOGRAMS* of LSD... not miligrams.

The US government panicked, they thought we would be under chemical attack through our water supply and solicited testing through a number of American universities to try to determine the nature of mass exposure to LSD...

And history was made.