Frightening is’nt it, how many times has this happened before it makes you wonder.

Well until now anyway. Control always used to be real good. What makes this important: Years ago nuke events were accidents where the weapon was authorized to be where it was. Dropping a wrench on a liquid fuelled missile. Palermo, Savannah, Greenland, Burning up a nuke loaded B-47 in England and some others I have missed. This is a whole different kettle of fish. In this case the whole chain of control of inventory, storage and management, movement authorization, broke down completely. This is the stuff before, we that have seen it would laugh in at movies because they never showed control of the weapons properly. (that silly movie Broken Arrow etc etc)

Seems any good of the old days of the long disbanded SAC is truly dead. I am sure there will be a raft of reports on this for a long time. One of them should show that the quality of downsizing, resourcing and training have broken the system. Been around the old days of SAC and have seen the system… Myself and others from that era would tell you that the methods in place would not have allowed this to happen back in the day. Something has changed significantly. IMO that is a lapse of standards, methods, training, and resources for this mission.