Real Live Nukes. Film at 11.

[saveau]

I originally posted this as a comment on gmskarka's blog entry on the same topic, but I might as well repost it here in my own domain...

I grew up in the Air Force. My father, who at 70 is still the hardest working man I have ever known, was a flight mechanic and crew chief who worked primarily on B-52's and the KC-135's that refueled them. I spent my

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[avindair]

When I read the initial report, I had to read it twice. I simply couldn't wrap my head around the incompetence that would have to be in play for this to have happened.

I'm going to offer up a third alternative; a military that is so stretched, so exhausted, so put-upon that a mistake of this magnitude isn't merely possible, it's inevitable.

No, that doesn't make me worry any less.

[saveau]

Avindair, your third alternative strikes me as the most likely mechanism in play here, and I'm embarrassed that I didn't specifically call that one out.

Still terrified...

[avindair]

Makes me wonder what we don't hear about.