B-52 flew nuclear bombs across US by mistake

[ártybhoy]

B-52 flew nuclear bombs across US by mistake:

A B-52 bomber flew the length of the United States mistakenly loaded with as many as six nuclear armed cruise missiles, US military officials confirmed today.
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[Seabird]

OMG what are they trying to do kill us all! How do you mistakenly have nukes on board?? Pathetic Yep and Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Shame on this government.

[quirk]

U.S. Staging Nukes for Iran?

By Larry Johnson

09/06/07 " Booman Tribune" -- -Why the hubbub over a B-52 taking off from a B-52 base in Minot, North Dakota and subsequently landing at a B-52 base in Barksdale, Louisiana? That’s like getting excited if you see postal worker in uniform walking out of a post office. And how does someone watching a B-52 land identify the cruise missiles as nukes? It just does not make sense.

So I called a old friend and retired B-52 pilot and asked him. What he told me offers one compelling case of circumstantial evidence. My buddy, let’s call him Jack D. Ripper, reminded me that the only times you put weapons on a plane is when they are on alert or if you are tasked to move the weapons to a specific site.

Then he told me something I had not heard before.

Barksdale Air Force Base is being used as a jumping off point for Middle East operations. Gee, why would we want cruise missile nukes at Barksdale Air Force Base. Can’t imagine we would need to use them in Iraq. Why would we want to preposition nuclear weapons at a base conducting Middle East operations?

His final point was to observe that someone on the inside obviously leaked the info that the planes were carrying nukes. A B-52 landing at Barksdale is a non-event. A B-52 landing with nukes. That is something else.

Now maybe there is an innocent explanation for this? I can’t think of one. What is certain is that the pilots of this plane did not just make a last minute decision to strap on some nukes and take them for a joy ride. We need some tough questions and clear answers. What the hell is going on? Did someone at Barksdale try to indirectly warn the American people that the Bush Administration is staging nukes for Iran? I don’t know, but it is a question worth asking.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18325.htm

[broche]

great, they are trying to bring about the apocalypse, bloody evangelicals you can never trust them

[Erin_go_bragh]

Was reading in the Irish News there the Russian airforce sent three bombers over NATO airspace before being intercepted by the noweigan and royal airforce.

[quirk]

If this is an incident which occured a few weeks ago then they only have recomenced sorties as they did during the cold war. In this particular instance they remained in international airspace and did not enter NATO's although they came very close before turning back.

[Erin_go_bragh]

If this is an incident which occured a few weeks ago then they only have recomenced sorties as they did during the cold war. In this particular instance they remained in international airspace and did not enter NATO's although they came very close before turning back.


Whats your opinion quirk on these provocitive actions? In an unlikely event that a war should ever occur between east and western Europe wouldnt it mean trouble for the six counties?

[quirk]

I think it is just the Russians flexing their muscles and proclaiming that they are once again a power to be reckoned with. I read that they could not fly these long sorties for a number of years because the military was short of cash, but Putin has recently increased their budget alot.

I dont think a war would happen but if it did it would set in motion a series of events that no one can forsee and this could affect the six counties and indeed the rest of the world.

[broche]

Whats your opinion quirk on these provocitive actions? In an unlikely event that a war should ever occur between east and western Europe wouldnt it mean trouble for the six counties?

''England's difficulty is Ireland's opportunity'' That dictum will never change

[ártybhoy]

If this is an incident which occured a few weeks ago then they only have recomenced sorties as they did during the cold war. In this particular instance they remained in international airspace and did not enter NATO's although they came very close before turning back.

Yesterday a chara 2 brit tornado jets turned away 8 russian heavy bombers capable of carrying nuclear war heads as they where entering airspace they shouldn't have been entering

"I think" This is because america is surrounding russias southern borders to safegaurd a fat juicy oil pipeline going from north of afghanistan through georgia (getting cia support to stay in power) right through the caspian sea to turkey (another yank friend)
I can see loads more proxy wars carried out, the russians arming anyone that wants to fight the yanks.
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