The Use of Nuclear Weapons is Authorized...

[captain_radz]

Think about it, 25 years ago we were still ready for the birds of death to come flying over us and rain down upon our heads an atomic wave of death on the nation. The threat of a force touching the life of every single man woman and child on the earth was something that was at the time, a very real threat

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[opheliaspeaks]

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[captain_radz]

I frakkin called that one! some douchehat stole my idea. but it is reassuring to see there are some people out there like myself that are able to see that apple is going to create the humanoid cylons.

[june16_1904]

Some interesting figures and stats about nuclear weapons from the Brookings Institute.

[june16_1904]

In an ideal world, they'd be banned outright... oh wait

[captain_radz]

I am really interested to see what news stories will be breaking now and if they are in response to the incident, such as troop movements in nations that are not in friendly status, or if there will now be a big focus on the rise/decline of violence in Iraq.

my bet is this one gets buried fast and when the full report is released it won't even get a soundbite.

[redbull34th]

I really don't think that we're going to see any kind of response by anyone. If we had flown Nukes over a foreign nation/airspace, that may have been a different story. I equate this to the military parades of communist past, I don't think that Washington had the entire U.S. armed forces on alert every year when the Soviets rolled through Red Square with their missiles and tanks and such.

You do highlight an interesting point: I'm surprised this was even mentioned in the news at all, since it's a military matter and nobody was injured. If the plane had crashed or if peripheral events had occurred, I could have seen news coverage, but the fact that the Air Force voluntarily surrendered information what could be considered to be a significant SNAFU when it could have quietly been omitted from public awareness? Fishy.

In other news: The U.S. Army moves a Helicopter from the East side of the base to the West side of the base.

[redbull34th]

Reply to Ken

Nuclear conflict is something that used to bother me a lot, then I learned to stop worrying about it and love the bomb(There's my Kubrick reference). I did a lot of reading about it, including this which I found very informative: The Effects of a Nuclear Weapon Over Detroit or Leningrad: A Tutorial On The Effects Of Nuclear WeaponsI guess the biggest concern that I have about the entire thing is that it highlights a failing of our country's military security, you don't just pop open the fridge and pull out a nuclear warhead. There has to be a process or procedures by which access to nuclear weapons is achieved, and if so, reassessment of that process and the security of that process must occur in the shortest possible time. I find it ironic that a passenger can't take a bottle of shampoo onto an airline, that I can't take my Gerber Multi-Tool to the roof of the Empire State Building, but a B-52 can "accidentally" fly a few nuclear warheads over the nation? Oops. And if you can "Oops" a nuclear flyover, you might