[Newsbot]

Title: U.S. nuclear missile base loses communication
Category: Uncle Sam
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2010-10-26 20:27:51

[wildrosegirl]

Sweet gezus...

Just a little incompetence around there?

[Hyack]

Yeah, right....US presidential nuclear codes 'lost for months'

[Tman1]

Good thing I'm playing Fallout New Vegas and getting prepared.

[wildrosegirl]

I read that one too. Unfreakinbelivable.

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In August 2007, a B-52 was mistakenly armed with six nuclear-tipped cruise missiles and flown from North Dakota to Louisiana with its crew unaware they had nuclear bombs aboard.

Like an accident? Hmmm.. what? New guy, first day?

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In March 2008, the Pentagon acknowledged a mistaken shipment of four electrical fuses for ballistic missile warheads to Taiwan...

There's that word again..

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... subsequent investigation found that slippage in nuclear standards was a "problem that has been identified but not effectively addressed" for more than a decade.

No shit, Dick Tracey.

You'd think must maybe this might be kind of a priority?

[desertdude]

The US has a shoddy record of dealing with and handling nukes from day one. Its not a recent phenomena.

[2Cdo]

desertdude desertdude:

The US and Russia have a shoddy record of dealing with and handling nukes from day one. Its not a recent phenomena.

Fixed for you. Both superpowers have been less than diligent in their handling of nuclear arms. Apparently several TONS of nuclear material goes missing every year!

[desertdude]

My bad, your correct. But Russia is hardly a super power these days. Has nuke capabilty but hardly a super power.

And its not just nukes, the missing trillion dollars still hasn't been found, explained or has it ?

[2Cdo]

desertdude desertdude:

My bad, your correct. But Russia is hardly a super power these days. Has nuke capabilty but hardly a super power.

And its not just nukes, the missing trillion dollars still hasn't been found, explained or has it ?

Don't count them out yet, they're working on it.

[Newsbot]

Title: US Lost Command of One-Ninth of Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Arsenal Last Saturday
Category: Military
Posted By: Scape
Date: 2010-10-27 06:31:35

[CrazyNewfie]

Good job guys, good job. You would think for something as dangerous as nukes (NUKES for f..ks sake!) there would be backup after backup, apparently not.

[BartSimpson]

50 out of 450 ICBM's were effectively offline. I don't really see a big deal here as we still had 400 land based ICBMs available and some 3500 other nuclear weapons available.

I doubt anyone in the world was thinking, "Hey, the Americans only have 3,900 nukes instead of 3,950! Now's our chance to hit them with their pants down!"

[Scape]

...or this could be the spark for a whole new round of disarmament talks for weapons that are clearly not needed.

These are not weapons, they are antiques.

[xerxes]

Scary but not all that alarming. The capacity to destroy humanity was still intact.

[bootlegga]

Scape Scape:

...or this could be the spark for a whole new round of disarmament talks for weapons that are clearly not needed.

These are not weapons, they are antiques.

Ahhh, they are practically brand new compared to the B-52s still in service, which may stay in operation until the 2040s!

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There is a proposal under consideration to re-engine the remaining B-52H aircraft to extend the service life. B-52 re-engine plans, if implemented, call for the B-52 to be utilized through 2025. Current engineering analysis show the B-52's life span to extend beyond the year 2040. The limiting factor of the B-52’s service life is the economic limit of the aircraft's upper wing surface, calculated to be approximately 32,500 to 37,500 flight hours. Based on the projected economic service.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/systems/b-52-life.htm