Nuke transportation story has explosive implications.

[tailwind]

http://www.star-telegram.com/245/v-print/story/259201.html

Nuke transportation story has explosive implications.
By ROBERT STORMER

EXCERPT:

Last month, six W80-1 nuclear-armed AGM-129 advanced cruise missiles were flown from Minot Air Force Base, N.D., to Barksdale AFB in Louisiana and sat on the tarmac for 10 hours undetected.
Press reports initially cited the Air Force mistake of flying nuclear weapons over the United States in violation of Air Force standing orders and international treaties, while completely missing the more important major issues, such as how six nuclear cruise missiles got loose to begin with.

Opinion columns and editorials appeared in America's newspapers, some blasting the Air Force for flying nukes over the U.S. and some defending the Air Force procedure. None of the news reports focused on the real questions of our nuclear security.

The questions that must be answered:

1 Why, and for what ostensible purpose, were these nuclear weapons taken to Barksdale?

2 How long was it before the error was discovered?

3 How many mistakes and errors were made, and how many needed to be made, for this to happen?

4 How many and which security protocols were overlooked?

5 How many and which safety procedures were bypassed or ignored?

6 How many other nuclear command and control non-observations of procedure have there been?

7 What is Congress going to do to better oversee U.S. nuclear command and control?

8 How does this incident relate to concern for reliability of control over nuclear weapons and nuclear materials in Russia, Pakistan and elsewhere?

9 Does the Bush administration, as some news reports suggest, have plans to attack Iran with nuclear weapons?

10 If this was an accident, have we degraded our military to a point where we are now making critical mistakes with our nuclear arsenal? If so, how do we correct this?

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[fenriswolf]

1. 11. any other "incedents" we do not know about?

12. do a comprehensive count of all nuclear weapons both on the books and off

[Bitwit1234]

6. Now that was a question I wanted to know and I am scared to find out

[Trillo]

2. K & R

:kick:

[RC]

3. What does Cheney know and when did he know it?

[bonito]

5. Or has Cheney outsourced so much

That it's beyond his control as well, I do wonder.

[thecrow]

4. I put this in the greatest page!

Not often I get to do that :)

[tailwind]

8. : )

Cool.

[FogerRox]

7. AGM-129 are not being decommissioned

the older cruise missle is being decommissioned, warheads removed.