Approximately 36 hours had elapsed from the time the armed missiles were mistakenly removed from their bunker at Minot to the time an airman noticed them aboard the B-52 in Barksdale. In all that time, not a single person realized they were missing or that they had been left unguarded at both bases.
As a result of this BENT SPEAR incident, the secretary of the Air Force and US Air Force chief of staff resigned, 7 senior USAF officers were relieved of their commands or positions and reassigned, and 65 airmen lost their Personnel Reliability Program certifications to work with nuclear weapons.
I miss consequences.
fair enough like
At least some heads rolled. Not like Gabbard exposing an undercover CIA agent.
Gabbard is LITERALLY working for Putin. Treason isn’t a big enough word.
You're not lying. I could say prostitution, but that's assuming money changed hands. I'm not sure that part would be true.
Well, it's not like they accidentally released a hydrogen bomb. Which has happened more than once. "Command and Control" by Schlosser has the details.
No, it's not as bad as those catastrophic accidents. But it could have been, especially if the aircraft had caught fire or crashed and no one in the air or on the ground was aware it was carrying six thermonuclear weapons.
I agree. Reading that book was a shocker for me.