Key Gaps In NUKE Story-Bush Administration got caught at Barksdale (Larry Johnson)

The Pentagon has been stonewalling on my requests for answers to key questions. For two weeks a public affairs office has been declining to respond to my question about whether the six nuclear-tipped cruise missiles flown by B-52 from Minot AFB to Barksdale AFB were programmed for specific targets, and if so what those targets were, or even whether the team that investigated the incident checked to see if they were targeted.

The Air Force and Pentagon have also declined to explain whether US nuclear weapons in storage in US bunkers have been provided with the same alarm and motion-detection sensors that the National Nuclear Security Agency helped to install on the nukes being stored on Russian bases.

I can’t fault any of the logic he (Lindorff) uses and no matter what road you take they all come back to the fact that there is more to this than just a mistake. We both agree that there was another purpose for the nukes than to mistakenly put them on obsolete, soon to be destroyed, cruise missiles and ship them off. They were used as “saber rattling” or a prelude to their actual use. I can understand the first one, the second one scares me. Whatever the truth is may not be known for some time, but for now it seems things may have been put on hold. Although we still are making a lot of noise about Iran etc. I’m sure that one of the plans for any response in that area would be to use cruise missiles with nukes to take out the major defenses and their capability to make their own weapons.