Stephen 


> 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 


Well - here is what a pod looks like:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/AGM-129_on_a_B-52.JPG


... does anyone really think that any fool in the known universe could make 
that kind of counting error?

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