Showing posts with label nuclear warheads. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nuclear warheads. Show all posts

October 10, 2007

The Loose Nukes Story Has a New Wrinkle

I knew there was more to this story. Let's hope it gets reported.
Nuke transportation story has explosive implications
By ROBERT STORMER
Special to the Star-Telegram, Posted on Sun, Oct. 07, 2007
The procedure is to separate the warhead from the missile, encase the warhead and transport it by military cargo aircraft to a repository -- not an operational bomber base that just happens to be the staging area for Middle Eastern operations. [emphasis added]

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

See past posts: September 13, 2007, This was No Accident: Nuclear Weapons are Different and September 7, 2007, Heads Up re Stand Down

September 13, 2007

This was No Accident: Nuclear Weapons are Different

This strange story might not ever get coverage, but should. Nuclear missiles flying from North Dakota to Louisiana without anyone knowing about it? Don't forget Friday's "stand-down." (See my Sept. 7th post "Heads Up re Stand Down" for a report on this decision by Air Combat Command.

Written by Dave Lindorff Monday, 10 September 2007

I would say that the chances that those Advanced Cruise Missiles and their W80-1 nuclear warheads were loaded accidentally on that B-52 are exactly zero. So the question is: who ordered this flight, and why?

http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2366&Itemid=81