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Wednesday, September 05, 2007

PARANOIA in the real world: Accidental nukes 

Man oh man, how often has this happened to you: You drive to the supermarket, and when you get there, you slap your forehead and say, "Dang, I forgot and brought along the nuclear weapons again."

Turns out the military makes that same mistake. Last week, a B-52 flew from North Dakota to Louisiana while accidentally loaded with up to six nuclear missiles with yields of five to 150 kilotons apiece.

For some reason this reminds me of the line from John Woo's 1996 film Broken Arrow, which takes its title from the military term for a lost nuclear warhead: "I don't know what's scarier, losing a nuclear weapon or that it happens so often there's actually a term for it."
Posted by: Allen Varney / 12:08 PM

Comments:
I've been reading a bunch of conspiracy boards about this lately and there seem to be two brewing notions.

One is that this was all done deliberately to make Iran acutely aware that we have actual planes moving the Real Bombs around, i.e. implying that some of those bombs are probably going to striking range of Tehran.

The other, however, is that there were six bombs in Dakota, only five in Louis, and the bomb that went missing was given, by our government, to Muslim terrorists who will use it to blow up an American city to justify Republican martial law and an unending war against Muslim terrorists. If this strategy sounds like it makes no sense at all, of course, you aren't playing enough PARANOIA.
# posted by Anonymous The Elder Dan : September 20, 2007 7:12 PM
 
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