The Air Force lost track of five nuclear missiles. "Anonymous sources say that five Advanced Cruise Missiles were mistakenly loaded on a B-52 bomber that flew from a base in North Dakota to one in Louisiana. The missiles, set to be decommissioned, should have been removed from the plane. Instead, they were mounted on the bomber’s wings."
Larry Johnson picks at the threads of this story. "Barksdale Air Force Base, [where the missles were taken], is being used as a jumping off point for Middle East operations. Why would we want to preposition nuclear weapons at a base conducting Middle East operations?" Also since there would be no obvious way for someone to recognize the nukes on the plane, the story was probably leaked. "Did someone at Barksdale try to indirectly warn the American people that the Bush Administration is staging nukes for Iran?"
Tristero thinks "that Bush's is so anxious to drop The Bomb that his administration is simply scouring the world to find an excuse". That might be a bit much but there's little I doubt with this administration.
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