seattle.politics

"Paul Mitchum" wrote in message
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> Gattman wrote:
>
>> "Corky K" wrote in message
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>>
>> >>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.

This is the kind of happening that simply isn't an accident.

Or so I hear.

Jim