US Lost Command of One-Ninth of Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Arsenal Last Sat.

[truthseekerdan]

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President Barack Obama has been informed that the US AIr Force lost complete command and control of one-ninth of their ICBM arsenal last Saturday. Administration officials stressed that the problem was only temporary, but that doesn't mean it wasn't big.

In fact, according to The Atlantic, a military officer briefed on the matter said that they have never experienced something so big: "[w]e can deal with maybe 5, 6, or 7 at a time, but we've never lost complete command and control and functionality of 50 ICBMs."

The US Air Force has declared that there was no danger to the population, while administration officials said that "at no time did the President's ability [to use the nuclear weapons] decrease." Taking one-ninth of the ICBM arsenal off line certainly decreases the President's ability to fully control the US nuclear arsenal.

Read more: http://gizmodo.com/5674028/one+ninth-of-us-nuclear-intercontinental-missiles-down-last-saturday

[Harley]

I was just about to post this. Good thing I checked before hitting the button!
Thanks Dan!

Air Force lost some communication with nuclear missiles


October 26, 2010 8:23 p.m. EDT

Washington (CNN) -- The Air Force lost partial communications with 50 nuclear missiles for almost an hour last weekend, an Air Force spokesman said Tuesday.

The problem, characterized as a "single hardware issue," affected more than 10 percent of the country's ICBM arsenal on Saturday morning, according to Air Force spokesman Lt. Col. Wesley Miller IV.

Because of redundant systems, at no time was the Air Force unable to monitor, communicate with or, if need be, launch the intercontinental ballistic missiles on the president's command, several military officials said.

"Any time the president wanted to fire those missiles, he could have," a senior defense official said. At no time was the public in jeopardy, according to another military official.

The Minuteman III ICBMs are multiple warhead missiles that are controlled from Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming but are in missile silos spread out over a wide area around the base.

After the problem was detected, each silo was inspected by base personnel to make certain all 50 missiles were safe and secure.

The exact nature of the problem is still under investigation.

"The specific cause for the disruption is currently being analyzed on site by engineers from the ICBM systems program office," according to an Air Force statement.

A senior defense official said it was an underground cable that got disrupted.

The United States currently has 450 Minutemen III ICBMs. While the squadron of 50 that had problems Saturday represents 11 percent of America's ICBM arsenal, the United States also has bomber-based and sea-based nuclear weapons.

The Air Force Chief of Staff, Gen. Norton Schwartz, informed Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, about the problem during the weekend.

Mullen made sure Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was informed. President Obama was briefed on the issue on Tuesday morning, according to a report in Atlantic Monthly.

Gates takes nuclear weapon security very seriously. In 2008, Gates took the unprecedented step of firing both the Air Force secretary and the Air Force chief of staff because of two highly publicized mistakes involving Air Force nuclear weapons.

First there was the embarrassing revelation in August 2007 that a B-52 bomber took off from North Dakota with six nuclear-tipped cruise missiles that no one knew were live weapons until after the plane landed in Louisiana.

Then came word that the Air Force mistakenly shipped fuses that are used in nuclear weapons to Taiwan in 2006 in crates believed to contain helicopter batteries.

Full article and video here (http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/10/26/nukes.lost.communications/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn)

[truthseekerdan]

Now the question is -- Is this true? Or just more disinfo...:confused:

[Harley]

Here is the CNN Video from above article:

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[Harley]

Now the question is -- Is this true? Or just more disinfo...:confused:

These events have been occurring since the first ICBMS were activated, but the Air Force has always kept a lid on it. After all, they don't want to lose the publics confidence right?
In the recent press conference nothing much was said about RECENT events but they still occur to this day. Most likely an insider leaked this news to family and friends, the Air Force found out about it, and they decided to release an official statement before the leak got out and went viral.

Yes, I'm positive that this is absolutely true. But I see and hear a lot of disinfo in the official released statement. One of the most obvious disinfo clues I heard was the Minuteman Missiles are controlled by a single hardline. Completely False.

[Operator]

Now the question is -- Is this true? Or just more disinfo...:confused:


Air Force lost some communication with nuclear missiles

Because of redundant systems, at no time was the Air Force unable to monitor, communicate with or, if need be, launch the intercontinental ballistic missiles

The redundant systems are there to replace primary systems ...
So why is it news when redundant systems do exactly what they are planned to do ?

Either they are trying to make the US look silly (amplified by the question why Obama was informed so late) or they are reassuring the world that
the US has everything under control and reinstate that they still have 450 ICBM's (to kill us all 10 times over) ready to launch.

[TraineeHuman]

Here is part of Dr Richard Boylan's comments on this occurrence:

“…That "anomaly" Tuesday at the Warren Air Force Base Missile Launch Center, WY was not an equipment failure in the sense of a mere break-down on its own of poorly-constructed electronics gear.
Rather it was a Star Nations action, designed to rattle the U.S. Administration's "sabers", so to speak.
Star Nations is sending a loud and clear message to the U.S. Administration … to contact Star Nations' official representative … to … begin consultations on ending the UFO Cover-Up.
…Yesterday's temporary deactivation was not due to the same factor that occasioned a missile shut-down in 1998. That time it was a mere failure of the dubious-quality equipment which defense contractors sell the military.
[Something more analogous to Tuesday's failure occurred in March 1967: 10 missiles went off-line at Malmstrom AFB in Montana when a UFO came over the site. Another missile launch site, Echo, also had missile-launch loss of capability. An energy signature reading of those events indicate that genuine Star Nations craft were involved, and were sending a message of Star Nations' opposition to nuclear warfare. Star Nations was sending a different message back then.]
Let's see if yesterday's action by Star Nations gets those generals and admirals off their stuck position, and to stop opposing the ending of the UFO Cover-Up.
My close associate, a Star Person Incarnate Human, points out that yesterday's action by Star Nations also lets the Cabal know that their "superweapons" will not be able to stop Star Visitor craft from showing up in upcoming further displays-of-presence to help hasten the end of the UFO Cover-Up.”

I might add that there seem to be quite a few things like this that go on without ever being reported on these websites.

[Operator]

Star nation huh ?

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He might be right ...

The US might answer the call and visit the star nation begin November

[Rocky_Shorz]

I saw the same story from Time, several days later was when the earthquake centers went nuts with activity around the world...

[42]

An admitted US arsenal of 450 land based minutemen ICBM's... plus how many more ready to deploy in the navy, air force and who knows what else.... For what reason? This is insanity. Give peace a chance.

[42]

If blood will flow, when flesh and steel are one, drying in the color of the evening sun.... perhaps then we might realize the futility of huge nuclear arsenals and accept, all too late, how fragile we are.

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[Arpheus]

This is interesting hmmmmmmm.

[Shairia]

I just don't see this kind of information freely being shared with the public...sorry I'm not buying it. Is this another incident to take away mroe of our freedoms?

[sojorner]

Strange that it comes one month after disclosure...when the whistleblowers were saying the aliens were messing with the nuclear weapons....

Perhaps this info is leading to something else coming up...

Soj

[Operator]

I just don't see this kind of information freely being shared with the public...sorry I'm not buying it.

It was om CNN so it was publicly shared but I guess you mean that the info is far too serious and should not be shared if true. So what's the real purpose here ... ?


Is this another incident to take away mroe of our freedoms?

As they say each crisis is an opportunity that should not be wasted ....

[Operator]

Strange that it comes one month after disclosure...when the whistleblowers were saying the aliens were messing with the nuclear weapons....

Perhaps this info is leading to something else coming up...

Soj

Did they really say and prove that it were aliens ? I think they suggested it because they just have no other explanation

[sojorner]

Still....The implication put out last month suggested alien interloping around the nuclear sites on CNN....now CNN is saying this.....

It makes me wonder if next CNN will be saying that the aliens are attacking the US's defenses.....that of course would be seen as an aggressive act...etc. etc.

Or maybe I've been on the internet too long...

Soj