Missing Nukes: Treason of the Highest Order

[babylonsister]

Missing Nukes: Treason of the Highest Order

by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya

Global Research, October 29, 2007

Missing Nukes on August 29-30, 2007


According to a wide range of reports, several nuclear bombs were “lost” for 36 hours after taking off August 29/30, 2007 on a “cross-country journey” across the U.S., from U.S.A.F Base Minot in North Dakota to U.S.A.F. Base Barksdale, near New Orleans, in Louisiana. <1> Reportedly, in total there were six W80-1 nuclear warheads armed on AGM-129 Advanced Cruise Missiles (ACMs) that were “lost.” <2> The story was first reported by the Military Times, after military servicemen leaked the story.

It is also worth noting that on August 27, 2007, just days before the "lost" nukes incident, three B-52 Bombers were performing special missions under the direct authorization of General Moseley, the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force. <3> The exercise was reported as being an aerial information and image gathering mission. The base at Minot is also home of the 91st Space Wings, a unit under the command of Air Force Space Command (AFSPC).

According to official reports, the U.S. Air Force pilots did not know that they were carrying weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). Once in Louisiana, they also left the nuclear weapons unsecured on the runway for several hours. <4>

U.S. Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Plans, and Requirements, Major-General Richard Y. Newton III commented on the incident, saying there was an “unprecedented” series of procedural errors, which revealed “an erosion of adherence to weapons-handling standards” <5>

These statements are misleading. The lax security was not the result of procedural negligence within the U.S. Air Force, but rather the consequence of a deliberate tampering of these procedures.

If a soldier, marine, airman, or sailor were even to be issued a rifle and rifle magazine — weaponry of a far lesser significance, danger, and cost — there is a strict signing and accountability process that involves a chain of command and paperwork. This is part of the set of military checks and balances used by all the services within the U.S. Armed Forces.

Military servicemen qualified to speak on the subject will confirm that there is a stringent nuclear weapons handling procedure. There is a rigorous, almost inflexible, chain of command in regards to the handling of nuclear weapons and not just any soldier, sailor, airman, or marine is allowed to handle nuclear weapons. Only servicemen specialized in specific handling and loading procedures, are perm certified to handle, access and load nuclear warheads.

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http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7158

[rAVES]

1. Its not clear whats going on here, but its clear something is going on!

and my money says it aint good.

[tom_paine]

6. Sadly, I agree. n/t

[14thColony]

2. Three B-52s doing what?

"...three B-52 Bombers were performing special missions...The exercise was reported as being an aerial information and image gathering mission."

B-52s do not perform "aerial information and image gathering." They are vertical (gravity) bombers and cruise missile carriers, not "collectors." Other aircraft do that job.

I completely agree that this movement of 6 live nukes could never ever have been a mistake. No one even goes near these weapons without a host of authorizations and under very close mutual supervision. The system for handling nuclear weapons is paranoid to a level typical people cannot easily conceive. Everyone is assumed to be up to no good until quadruple-checked and checked again. Even then no one is ever trusted to be alone with a weapon, EVER. Consider for a moment that in the 62 years since 1945 no such 'mistake' has ever happened before, despite the fact that at some points in the 1950s and 1960s there were dozens of heavy bombers on nuclear alert, weapons loaded and crews in the cockpits, day in and day out. All those weapons being handled, loaded, unloaded, moved, stored, retrieved, for decades and never such a mistake.

[babylonsister]

3. It does raise lots of questions. And welcome to DU! nt

[FREEWILL56]

4. Welcome to DU and I wholeheartedly agree with you on this.

I had done civilian nuclear work that had I been suitedup in an area I was not supposed to be in I could've been shot by the guards and that was pre9-11 nonmilitary applications of nuclear. Heads should be rolling for this.

[2 Much Tribulation]

5. Now that a second incident involving a sub near san diego has come up

one wonders if they are deliberately publicizing any foulup they can, in order to stoke fears about nukes and thus support war with Iran?

[Beam Me Up]

7. Well, they're stoking my fear, alright, but it isn't Iran I'm worried about. n/t

[dbt]

8. Kicked and recommended just because this subject

got locked over in GD yesterday because "globalresearch.ca = conspiracy website."

:rofl: