B52 Loaded w/Nuclear Warheads Flies Over Midwest

Maybe you actually missed this story which broke on CNN 9/6/07... I cannot locate the original CNN story though I read it at work on Thursday. The basics are that a B52 loaded with 6 cruise missiles with active nuclear warheads flew for 3 hours from Minot AFB, North Dakota to Barksdale AFB, Louisiana. The problem: no one knew the cruise missiles had active warheads installed! Ooops! Bet those pilots had a few drinks after finding out about that one! Just makes you feel all warm and cozy knowing how well you are looked after by your USAF on home ground! Well, in all fairness, a guy did get fired and there is an investigation. That should fix it right up. Right?

Oh, and did you know that, this time, when George W. Bush was told of this incident he actually reacted! Amazing! He didn't just sit there he actually, sort of, jumped up and got worried. And to think that with this incident no one got hurt! hmmmm

BTW I'm amazed at how quickly all that investigation and firing activity took place! Compare to the investigations into the misdoings of 9/11, which have yet to occur. And with 9/11 there were nearly 3000 people murdered and to this day people continue to die from disease, cancer and sickness from the fallout! Not one USG official has been fired yet!
Wake up America!

http://www.indiescribe.com/2007/09/b52-flies-over-.html
http://www.paxplena.com/2007/09/bomber-armed-with-nuclear-weapons-flys.html
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2007/sep/06/b52_bomber_flies_nuclear_weapons/
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/central/view.bg?articleid=1029515
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20427730/

Update: 9/14/07
http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2007/09/airforce_nuclear_warhead_070905/

Excerpts from Air Force Times:
The Air Force continued handing out disciplinary actions in response to the six nuclear warheads mistakenly flown on a B-52 Stratofortress bomber from Minot Air Force Base, N.D., to Barksdale Air Force Base, La., on Aug. 30. The squadron commander in charge of Minot’s munitions crews was relieved of all duties pending the investigation. It was originally reported that five nuclear warheads were transported, but officers who tipped Military Times to the incident who have asked to remain anonymous since they are not authorized to discuss the incident, have since updated that number to six.

Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, said a host of security checks and warning signs must have been passed over, or completely ignored, for the warheads to have been unknowingly loaded onto the B-52. “It’s not like they had nuclear ACMs and conventional ACMs right next to each other and they just happened to load one with a nuclear warhead,” Kristensen said.

The Defense Department uses a computerized tracking program to keep tabs on each one of its nuclear warheads, he said. For the six warheads to make it onto the B-52, each one would have had to be signed out of its storage bunker and transported to the bomber. Diligent safety protocols would then have had to been ignored to load the warheads onto the plane, Kristensen said. All ACMs loaded with a nuclear warhead have distinct red signs distinguishing them from ACMs without a nuclear yield, he said. ACMs with nuclear warheads also weigh significantly more than missiles without them.

Along with the 5th Munitions Squadron commander, the munitions crews involved in mistakenly loading the nuclear warheads at Minot have been temporarily decertified from performing their duties involving munitions, pending corrective actions or additional training, Thomas said.

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10/12/07:
A couple more concerns since the initial report was made...

Six nuclear bombs left Minot but only five made it to Barksdale - where is the missing nuke?? There has been much speculation and concern. Is this connected to Steve Fossett? Is Steve Fossett really missing? Is this why there was such an intensive search done for Fossett? Why WAS the military involved in looking for Fossett? Why were satellites used in the search for Fossett?

Then there are the deaths that have been reported since this incident first "broke":

• Airman First Class Todd Blue, 20 years old, died Wyethville, Virginia, September 12

• Two people from Barksdale Air Force Base, died Caddo Parish, Louisiana, September 15

• Airman Adam Barrs, aged 20, killed in an auto crash in Minot, July 5

• Air Force 1st Lt. Weston Kissel, 28, B-52 pilot assigned to the 23rd Bomb Wing at the Minot base, killed in a motorcycle crash in Tennessee

• Air Force Capt. John Frueh, found dead in Skamania County, Washington state, September 2

An airman at Minot stated that it was highly unusual that so many deaths occur in such a short span of time for one small, isolated base. In fact, he couldn't recall the last time that a death had occurred because Minot is/was a base where nothing usually happened...

Is something being covered up? Or did one or all of these individuals step in the way of the neo-con governments' ultimate goal (Iran) and they were eliminated for doing so? Again, it seems this is another situation that the Bush/Cheney neo-con government is covering up or dismissing as they push their aggressive way toward world domination, at any cost.

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