And if one of them goes off accidentally, by the time it's sorted out, Cheney and Bush will have attacked Iran.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 The chair of a key U.S. congressional panel Wednesday characterized as "deeply disturbing" the flight of a B-52 bomber loaded with five nuclear warheads.
"There is no more serious issue than the security and proper handling of nuclear weapons," Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo., chairman of the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee, said in a statement.
The bomber mistakenly loaded with five warheads flew from Minot Air Force Base, N.D, to Barksdale Air Force Base, La., Aug. 30, prompting an Air Force-wide investigation.
And via
Hipparchia of Over The Cliff, Onto The Rocks, an article about nuclear accidents in Tennessee:
Some 35 liters, or just over 9 gallons, of highly enriched uranium solution leaked from a transfer line into a protected glovebox and spilled onto the floor. The leak was discovered when a supervisor saw a yellow liquid ``running into a hallway'' from under a door, according to one document.
The commission said there were two areas, the glovebox and an old elevator shaft, where the solution potentially could have collected in such a way to cause an uncontrolled nuclear reaction.
``It is likely that at least one worker would have received an exposure high enough to cause acute health effects or death,'' the agency wrote.
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