IIRC the final official story was that there were never six to start with, somebody just miscounted.
What? They can't even count to *six*?? Well, it didn't sound quite that stupid in the original version. The missiles were in two pods which could contain three each, but one pod only contained 2; the original "six" number came from multiplying the pod capacity by the number of pods (2*3) rather than actually counting missiles (which weren't there anymore anyway, they were hundreds of miles away by that time). Anyhow that's how I understood it. Still didn't make a whole lot of sense, it's true, but it still made more sense than the notion that they'd try to stage a strike against Iran by flying nukes all over the Midwest while totally violating all the Air Force's own rules about nuke handling. Surely they could have handled the whole thing with material that was already off-shore. I mean, what ever happened to Diego Garcia and places like that? Jones Beene wrote: > 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. > > Hey, I know its only "one", silly me, but even Pentagon accountants > make few numerical mistakes till they get over ten of anything.... >
