Reply #2: Those procedures apply to nuclear warheads. The incident was started when personnel stored

[jody]

missiles with nuclear warheads in the same area with missiles with dummy warheads.

Things went from bad to worst thereafter when personnel at each subsequent checkpoint assumed the cruise missiles had dummy warheads for which the procedures you cite do not apply when in fact six of the missiles actually had nuclear warheads.

It seems possible that the most critical error was in storing nuclear warheads with dummy warheads.