Nukes Were in Staging Area for Middle East Deployment
A retired military expert, Robert Stormer, has some intriguing questions for whomever does get to the bottom of the bizarre episode in which nuclear bombs were flown from North Dakota to an airbase in Louisiana that is a staging area for Middle East operations.
Stormer writes:
The United States also does not transport nuclear weapons meant for elimination attached to their launch vehicles under the wings of a combat aircraft. The procedure is to separate the warhead from the missile, encase the warhead and transport it by military cargo aircraft to a repository -- not an operational bomber base that just happens to be the staging area for Middle Eastern operations.
He then asks:
Why, and for what ostensible purpose, were these nuclear weapons taken to Barksdale?
How many and which security protocols were overlooked?
How many and which safety procedures were bypassed or ignored?
Does the Bush administration, as some news reports suggest, have plans to attack Iran with nuclear weapons?
If this was an accident, have we degraded our military to a point where we are now making critical mistakes with our nuclear arsenal? If so, how do we correct this?
Here is the link.