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Med tanke på allt prat om kärnvapen i mellanöstern kan det vara intressant att granska hur USA hanterar sina egna kärnvapen.

Den officiella historien är att av misstag sattes ett antal känvapen bestyckade kryssningsmissiler på ett flygplan för transport till skrotning?? Varje missil hade en styrka motsvarande 10 hiroshima bomber. Missilerna flögs sedan från en bas i Nord dakota till till Louisiana där ingen hade en aning om att ett kärnvapenbestyckat plan var på väg.  Som det sägs i artikel hade ingen sådan flygning utan speciella tillstånd skett på 40år. Planet hade innan flygningen stått utan  någon speciellt vakt framkört i 15 timmar för att sedan bli stående i 9 timmar i Louisiana utan att någon visste att det var kärnvapen ombord.  Med andra ord hade man tappat kontrollen över var vapnen fanns i mer än ett dygn utan att någon reagerade.

How warheads made an unplanned flight – Los Angeles Times

The airmen attached the gray missiles to the plane’s wings, six on
each side. After eyeballing the missiles on the right side, a flight
officer signed a manifest that listed a dozen unarmed AGM-129 missiles.
The officer did not notice that the six on the left contained nuclear
warheads, each with the destructive power of up to 10 Hiroshima bombs.

That detail would escape notice for 36 hours, during which the missiles
were flown to a Louisiana air base that had no idea nuclear warheads
were coming. It was the first known flight by a nuclear-armed bomber
over U.S. airspace, without special high-level authorization, in nearly
40 years.

The episode, serious enough to trigger a rare ”Bent Spear” nuclear
incident report that raced through the chain of command to Defense
Secretary Robert M. Gates and President Bush, provoked new questions
about the adequacy of U.S. nuclear weapons safeguards while the
military’s attention and resources are devoted to wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan.

Three weeks after word of the incident leaked to
the public, new details obtained by the Washington Post point to
security failures at multiple levels in North Dakota and Louisiana,
according to interviews with current and former U.S. officials briefed
on the initial results of an Air Force investigation.

The
warheads were attached to the plane in Minot without special guard for
more than 15 hours, and they remained on the plane in Louisiana for
nearly nine hours more before being discovered. The warheads slipped
from the Air Force’s nuclear safety net for more than a day without
anyone’s knowledge.

”I have been in the nuclear business since
1966 and am not aware of any incident more disturbing,” retired Air
Force Gen. Eugene Habiger, who served as U.S. Strategic Command chief
from 1996 to 1998, said.

An error in a missile storage room led
to missteps at every turn, as ground crews failed to notice the
warheads, and as security teams and flight crew members failed to
provide adequate oversight and check the cargo thoroughly. An elaborate
nuclear safeguard system, nurtured during the Cold War and infused with
rigorous accounting and command procedures, was utterly debased, the
investigation’s early results show.