Update: > Anyone every hear the spin of what happened to the "missing nuke"? ... > Remember the fiasco of the B-52 bomber from Minot ND? ... which, according to > reports there, had six armed nuclear cruise missile loaded onto it "by > accident", but was found the next day, unguarded, with only five.
Got this message privately: Minot AFB officer to face court-martial (10 Dec 2008) A Minot Air Force Base officer accused of stealing a missile launch control device will face a court-martial, the military said. Capt. Paul Borowiecki, who was a missile combat crew member assigned to the base’s 91st Missile Wing, is accused of taking the launch control device in July 2005, rather than destroying it as required when it was no longer in use. The Air Force also said Borowiecki told officials that another officer had lied in saying he destroyed a launch component. That device remains missing. That other officer, whose name has not been released, has not been charged. [As you know there is a "secret code" and procedure, which is needed to explode any "lost nuke" so ostensibly the one missing from Minot in 2007 could not be detonated without reverse engineering a "launch control device"] [This court marshal over such an aitem ... could be coincidental to the lost nuke of course] Item #2 Air Force brigadier general dies of gunshot wound (28 Jul 2008) Air Force brigadier general Thomas L. Tinsley died of a gunshot wound a spokesman said Monday. "To the best information, it's possible it was a self-inflicted gunshot wound," spokesperson Walberg told a news conference. General Tinsley's previous 22-month assignment was executive officer to Air Force chief of staff, Gen. T. Michael "Buzz" Mosely, who in June resigned under pressure in an agency shake-up. ["Fired" is a better description] Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates ousted both Mosely and Air Force Secretary Michael W. Wynne, the agency's civilian head, holding them accountable for failing to fully correct an erosion of nuclear-related performance standards. One concern was a cross-country flight in August 2007 of a B-52 carrying armed nuclear weapons. Curious - here we are after all of this and there is still no clear story on the whereabouts of the lost nuke. Those things must be fairly hard to hide?
