montana, and cheyenne, wyoming. those are the three spots, we built them by the thousands to point at the soviet union back in the day, while the soviet union built thousands of their own to point back at us. they may not still seem like the most pressing national security priority anymore now that the soviet union does not exist, but we never got rid of these things. and with hundreds of them still around and ready to go, somebody has got to keep them around and ready to go. they have got to be cleaned and maintained and kept track of. and occasionally moved around the country. so we employ u.s. air force personnel to take care of that. on august 29th, 2007, one of the air force s weapons handling teams at minot, north dakota, was tasked with the decommissioned nuclear weapons down to their base in louisiana. the missiles were not supposed to be shipped with their live
in the day, while the soviet union built thousands of their own to point back at us. they may not still seem like the most pressing national security priority anymore now that the soviet union does not exist, but we never got rid of these things. and with hundreds of them still around and ready to go, somebody has got to keep them around and ready to go. they have got to be cleaned and maintained and kept track of. and occasionally moved around the country. so we employ u.s. air force personnel to take care of that. on august 29th, 2007, one of the air force s weapons handling team at minot, north dakota, was tasked with the de-commissioned nuclear weapons down to their base in louisiana. the missiles were not supposed
bunkers of north dakota and the job of men and women on that command to essentially baby-sit missiles and hundreds of smaller warheads. they guard and maintain nuclear missiles seven days a week and in charge of launching in some cases if we decide to do that. on august 29th, 2007, one of the weapons handling teams was tasked with transporting some soon-to-be decommissioned cruise missiles to barksdale air force base in louisiana. the mission was to fly the missiles to louisiana, and possibly, these were not supposed to be live nuclear missiles. they were going to take off the warheads, replace them with dummy weights for balance and send them away. however, instead of retrieving the missiles with the dummy weights attached, the air force crew accidentally loaded on to the plane six cruise missiles that had live nuclear warheads
nuclear warheads. they are stored in bunkers in the high plains of north dakota an the job of the command to essentially baby-sit 150 giant intercontinental ballistic missiles and hundreds of smaller warheads. they guard and maintain our nuclear missiles 24/7 and they are in charge of launching them in some cases if we ever decide to do that. on august 29th, 2007 with, a day like any other at minot one of the weapons handling teams was tasked with transporting soon to be decommissioned cruise missiles. they were supposed to fly them to barksdale air force base, louisiana. they were supposed to fly them to louisiana and they were not supposed to be live nuclear missiles. they were to replace them with dummy weights for balance and send them away. however, instead of retrieving them with dummy weights on them, the crew at minot loaded on the
they guard and maintain nuclear missiles seven days a week and in charge of launching in some cases if we decide to do that. on august 29th, 2007, one of the weapons handling teams was tasked with transporting some soon-to-be decommissioned cruise missiles to barksdale air force base in louisiana. the mission was to fly the missiles to louisiana, and possibly, these were not supposed to be live nuclear missiles. they were going to take off the warheads, replace them with dummy weights for balance and send them away. however, instead of retrieving the missiles with the dummy weights attached, the air force crew accidentally loaded on to the plane six cruise missiles that had live nuclear warheads on them. they loaded them on to a b-52 bomber and sent it to louisiana. the pilots had no idea. six nukes with roughly the