Gates orders inventory of US nukes

[Joanne98]

WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Robert Gates has ordered a full inventory of all nuclear weapons and related materials after the mistaken delivery of ballistic missile fuses to Taiwan, the Pentagon said Thursday.

Gates told officials with the Air Force, Navy and Defense Logistics Agency to assess inventory control procedures for the materials and to submit a report within 60 days.

Earlier this week, Gates directed Navy Adm. Kirkland H. Donald to take charge of a full investigation of the delivery mistake in which four cone-shaped electrical fuses used in intercontinental ballistic missile warheads were shipped to the Taiwanese instead of the helicopter batteries they had ordered.

It was the second nuclear-related mistake involving the military that has been revealed in recent months. In August an Air Force B-52 bomber was mistakenly armed with six nuclear-tipped cruise missiles and flown from Minot Air Force Base, N.D., to Barksdale Air Force Base, La. At the time, the pilot and crew were unaware they had nuclear arms aboard.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080328/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/missile_mistake_15

Don't forget to search Dick Cheney's house.

[niyad]

1. I wonder how many of them are missing? I remember reading something

a few years ago that was talking about how they don't even know how much nuclear material is missing, but know that some is. how comforting.

[bahrbearian]

2. Is he going to include the ones Snarly and Chimpy have stashed.

Maybe he could inventory to Anthrax stockpiles while hes at it.

[BOSSHOG]

3. Evangelical christian flight crews are testing how much they can get away with

And they recruit in our military academys. Surely to god, chicanery has to be involved. You can't get onboard a base with little or no classified material let alone fly nukes off in a jet.

[rAVES]

4. oooh god... I sense a real "gate" on the way...