Now just how the HELL can these systems fail so thoroughly?

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

Concerning the security and tracking protocols currently in place, now controlling the military's nuclear weapons.

1. Nuclear Management Information System (NUMIS)
2. Defense Integration and Management of Nuclear Data Services (DIAMONDS)
3. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)

"The overall nature of this data is extremely sensitive and has some of the strictest data management performance requirements of any system in operation today. Simply stated, any warhead, component, or associated equipment must be tracked with 100% certainty, 100% of the time, even while being transported...."

Answer: THEY CAN'T.

http://www.cherokee-inc.com/servicePages/ITServicesDetails.htm

[Ian David]

1. Any government, significantly republicanized, is indistinguishable from chaos. n/t

[Gabi Hayes]

2. Communist infiltration...communist conspiracy...

Fluoride!

[baldguy]

3. "I don't want to abolish government. ..."

"...I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."

- Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform, NPR Morning Edition, 05-25-01

thanks WilliamPitt
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