seattle.politics

Clave wrote:

> "Paul Mitchum" wrote in message
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> > Gattman wrote:
[..]
> >> 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.

One, of course, doesn't want to think the worst.

It's fairly easy to construct all kinds of stories in one's head about
how this all came to pass. I read an interesting one here:
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written by someone from this think tank:
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