Retired Officials Criticize USAF’s Nuclear Custodianship
Retired senior Air Force officials criticize in no uncertain terms procedural mistakes that allowed six nuclear-armed cruise missiles to remain undetected on a B-52 flown from Minot AFB, N.D., to Barksdale AFB, La. The incident is an indication that the system for monitoring U.S. nuclear weapons has...
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