Loose nukes

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

Gates Orders Inventory of US Nukes

 

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080327/D8VM2K400.html

WASHINGTON (AP) - 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.

 

 

 

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