Pentagon: Over 1000 Nuclear Weapon Parts Missing?

[babylonsister]

Pentagon: Over 1000 Nuclear Weapon Parts Missing?
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Posted June 20, 2008 | 10:13 AM (EST)


Many people have raised the specter of nuclear WMDs being sourced from nefarious sources -- from errant former Soviet states, from N. Korea, Iran or Pakistan. It may be that to those fears must be added the threat that American nuclear weapon technology may be circulating in the black market as well.

Recently, the Air Force has faced serious lapses in nuclear weapons security. A bomber carried six nuclear bombs across the US without anyone in charge knowing about it, and nuclear nose cones were unintentionally shipped to Taiwan without anyone discovering the error for 18 months.

Recently, Defense secretary Robert Gates fired the civilian and military heads of the Air Force as a result of an investigation by Admiral Kirkland Donald into the above incidents and the general state of Nuclear weapon technology inventory security. Donald concluded that both of the above incidents had, according to the Financial Times, "'common origin' which was 'the gradual erosion of nuclear standards and a lack of effective oversight by air force leadership'."

Apparently, according to a closed, classified briefing the Pentagon made to congress, the nuclear security problem is much worse.

Yesterday, the Financial Times ran an article, by Demetri Sevastopulo headlined, "US N-weapons parts missing, Pentagon says."

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-kall/pentagon-over-1000-nuclea_b_108225.html

[arcadian]

1. You want a nuke?

I can get you a nuke. I can get you to within 5 feet of a nuclear weapon. Click the link. This causway and dock is how the Navy loads nuclear weapons onto it's ships from the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station. These two overpasses go directly over the path of nuclear weapons. That road is actually part of Colonial National Parkway that connects Williamsburg with Yorktown, Virginia. So standing on that overpass if you see heavy equipment rolling under you. Those are nuclear weapons.

Overpass 1:
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=q687fs8mnd21&style=o&lvl=1&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=23601748&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1

Overpass 2:
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=q67hfb8mp27k&style=o&lvl=1&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=23601816&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1

[babylonsister]

2. You mean US overpasses that are crumbling as we speak because

we haven't paid any attention to the infrastructure in this country? :scared: