I'm having a discussion with a good friend who is Republican and

[Booster]

I sent her to the Air Force Times for the story on the B-52's that carried the missiles to Barksdale AFB in LA. She clicked on the link and, sure enough, the story has been purged from their website. Anyone have an alternate website that isn't a progressive site (for obvious reasons) that carried the story. She claims she didn't read or hear anything about this. aarrgghhh. Help would be appreciated.

[Skittles]

1. here is one

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070915/NEWS01/709150343/1060/NEWS01

[HowHasItComeToThis]

2. GOOGLE IT 389 HITS

HERE YOU GO http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=B-52%27s+that+carried+the+missiles+to+Barksdale+AFB+in+LA&btnG=Google+Search

[Bitwit1234]

3. Well if they didnt' even hear about the nukes

then they don't know that all six of the airmen involved have ended up dead. One was found in Virginia, one in Washington State, one was in a motorcycle accident and I forget where the others were but someone had posted on HuffPuff and gave links to the newspaper articles.

[TwilightGardener]

6. That's not true. There's no solid connection between any recent Air Force

deaths and this nuke story--a couple of airmen died from Minot, and a B-52 pilot died--two out of those three were proven to be traffic accidents, and none of those three are known to have any connection to the nukes. I hate to see untrue internet rumors spread.

[USA_1]

4. Air Force Times

http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2007/09/airforce_nuclear_warhead_070905/

[AlCzervik]

5. From The Sacramento Bee Newspaper

http://www.sacbee.com/830/v-print/story/361494.html

it's an actual broadsheet newspaper, not one those "easy to read" Murdoch pop shit, a newspaper.

[Swamp Rat]

7. Guardian UK: Shakeup after nuclear missiles flown across US by mistake

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2162998,00.html

Simon Jeffery in Washington
Thursday September 6, 2007
The Guardian

As many as six nuclear warheads, each with a destructive potential almost 10 times that of the Hiroshima bomb, were mistakenly flown across the US, Pentagon officials conceded yesterday.
The incident last week saw nuclear-armed cruise missiles mounted on the wings of a B-52 bomber and flown from an airbase 40 miles below the Canadian border to the southern state of Louisiana. The 1,500 mile journey from the Minot airbase in North Dakota to Barksdale in Louisiana lasted three and a half hours, during which time the crew were unaware of their nuclear load.

Pentagon officials said a munitions squadron commander had been relieved of his duties and crews involved with the mistaken load - including ground crew workers - have been temporarily "decertified" from handling munitions.

The director of air and space operations at US air combat command is to lead an investigation into how the plane was able to mistakenly fly nuclear weapons without anybody realising.

The cruise missiles were being transferred to Louisiana for decommissioning, as part of a programme to retire 400 of them. Three air force officers who spoke to the Military Times newspaper said the nuclear warheads should have been removed before the missiles were loaded under the bomber's wings. It is unclear why they were not. The W80-1 warheads have an explosive yield of 150 kilotons. The Hiroshima bomb is calculated to have had an explosive yield of 16 kilotons.

(snip)

The missiles were not armed and safety features in the warheads would have prevented a nuclear detonation in the event of a crash, according to military officials.

(snip)

[Swamp Rat]

8. BBC: US B-52 in nuclear cargo blunder

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6980204.stm

US B-52 in nuclear cargo blunder

The US Air Force has launched an investigation after a B-52 bomber flew across the US last week mistakenly loaded with nuclear-armed missiles. It follows reports in the Army Times that five missiles were unaccounted for during the three-hour flight from North Dakota to Louisiana.

The air force said the cruise missiles were safe at all times. Army Times said the missiles were to be decommissioned but were mistakenly mounted on the bomber's wings. The W80-1 warhead has a yield of five to 150 kilotons, the paper said.

The flight took place on 30 August, from the Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota to the Barksdale Air Force Base, near Bossier City, in Louisiana.

(snip)

A military official told AFP news agency that President George W Bush had been informed of the mix-up.

(snip)

The BBC's Adam Brookes in Washington says experts have made it clear that if the plane had crashed there would not have been a nuclear explosion but there could have been a threat from plutonium leakage.

[Booster]

9. I love DU. If you're in a pickle all you have to do is ask, and you

guys always come through. Thanks to all of you for your help.

[calimary]

10. Isn't it the greatest?

The people here certainly have helped me a lot.

[unhappycamper]

11. militarytimes.com forums are another good place

B-52 mistakenly flies with nukes aboard

http://www.militarytimes.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?s=17ee085f30b9a37fe80c32264c83e78b&f=46