seattle.politics

Gattman wrote:

> "Corky K" wrote in message
> news:6q13e3deudqo937rgsouipff68kq6qnjcj@ ...
>
> >>What is the big deal? There used to be dozens planes in the air 24
> >>hours a day with nuclear weapons.
> >
> > They used to sell slide rules too. But that was also some 40 years ago.
> > Your point?
>
> The B-52, ironically, is contemporary to the slide rule. Don't point is
> probably that they have likely been transporting nukes over US territory on
> occasion every since. Nukes get transported. It's not a big news even
> that the airplane carried nukes over US soil, and strictly speaking they
> never left USAF custody from the time they left one facility until they
> arrived at the other. [..]

The reason this is a story is not that nukes get shipped over US
airspace. The reason this is a story is that there are special planes
for carrying nukes within the US, which are designed to minimize leakage
in case of a wreck.

This is the kind of accident that simply does not happen.

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