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Nukes Go Missing in Mix-Up

B-52 flies cross-country with five warheads mistakenly attached

By Jason Farago,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 5, 2007 11:50 AM CDT

(Newser) – Five nuclear warheads were briefly unaccounted for last week, the Military Times reports, when the warheads were not removed from missiles carried by a B-52 bomber prior to its flight from North Dakota to Louisiana. Though the weapons were in Air Force control at all...   Read full story »

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