U.S. bomber mistakenly flies with nuclear weapons

Doh!

[poster_boy]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. bomber mistakenly flew with at least five nuclear warheads over the United States last week, but the Air Force on Wednesday said the flight never threatened public safety.

Still, President George W. Bush and Defense Secretary Robert Gates were alerted on Friday morning to the mistake, according to Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell.

Gates also has received daily updates from Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Moseley on a probe to determine how the mistake occurred.

"It's clearly important enough that the secretary was informed of it and that he has requested daily briefings from Gen. Moseley as to what they are doing to fix the problem and to get to the bottom of the problem," Morrell said.

Rueters [news.yahoo.com]

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A U.S. bomber mistakenly flew with at least five nuclear warheads over the United States.

That would be the "very least" of my concerns.

I'm more concerned about those few Russian Suitcases that have been missing for quite some time.

[Marshall]

Oh yeah, like THAT never happened before. They just got caught with their hand in the cookie jar.

Marshall