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The United States mistakenly sent Taiwan four fuses used to trigger nuclear warheads on ballistic missiles in late 2006 and only discovered the mistake last week.
The fuses were recovered Monday from Taiwan where they were believed to have been held in storage after being mistakenly shipped as helicopter batteries from a Defense Department logistics facility in the United States…
It was the second major nuclear security breach uncovered in just over six months, following the mistaken transfer of nuclear armed cruise missiles from one US base to another aboard a B-52 bomber in September…
Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne said the 22-inch long needle nose component does not look like a helicopter battery.
It was nice of the Taiwan military to let us know we’d screwed up.
Am I the only one paranoid enough to think that they sent them deliberatly so the guys in Taiwan could take a look at them, and now turn around a claim it is a shipping mistake.
The only reason I say this is how can someone:
A. Mistake nuclear triggers for helicopter parts.
B. Not notice they are missing for 2 years.
I dunno, maybe I need to put my tin foil hat away?
now there’s actually a compelling argument for america to attack itself than there ever was to go into iraq
now there’s actually a legitimate argument for america to attack itself than there ever was to go into iraq
mission accomplished
Hey. Let’s outsource some MORE mission-critical stuff to the mercenaries and war-profiteers like Halliburton et al.
Way to go, Dumbya. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Robert A. Heinlein
I don’t know which is more scary. Is the government that inept at record keeping or did someone do this deliberately? Either way some really bad Sh*t can happen.
Nice picture of Bush, Cheney and Rove!
seems like a good way to pressure china by sending nuclear parts. When the mission has been accomplished then call it “a mistake” in the media after two years. Reminds me of the song “American Idiot”!
Once while in the Air Force at a SAC radio receiver site a supply guy knocked at the door.
I opened the door to find this guy laughing so hard he could hardly talk.
He wanted to know where the heck we wanted the B52 aircraft that we ordered….
This was confused with a $2 order for solder wick….
A week later the solder wick was delivered, supposed to be two rolls, we received 2 cases of 50 packages of 50 rolls each, way more than we used for the life of the site.
Overseeing a record-keeping hardware/software package for exactly this situation – with the same military genius crowd back in the day – our test resulted in 99.97% efficiency.
That may sound good; but, here’s how we got to those numbers. We moved 10,000 skus from one place in a warehouse to another. They lost 3.
I’d just accidentally give Taiwan nukes (and lots of them).
Then they could say that due to a clerical error, that if China tries to invade they’ll send China back to the stone age.
Accidentally on purpose send secret weapon technology to friendly Pacific country very close to China. Chinese see that Taiwan has friendly relationship with Americans. If they don’t fully understand, explain it as a “shipping error” (as though FedEx shipped these parts), drill the friendly relations with Taiwanese home to the Chinese.
It isn’t humanly possible to be that stupid to ship these parts there by accident.
#12, Then they could say that due to a clerical error, that if China tries to invade they’ll send China back to the stone age.
Or, China could simply blot out Taiwan right off the face of the Earth. Permanently.
I though the three in the photo were Bush’s “Brain Trust” !!! Soitenly ! Yuck, Yuck, Yuck !!!
I thought the photo was Hillary, Obama and McCain. We’re doomed. Party while you can.
I’m not surprised in the least. Last month I had to find an error on a long list of numbers that included a sequence similar to:
789456
789457
789548
789549
I took me a half hour to figure out why the numbers kept changing on me.