Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Those five nukes on that B-52 may have something to do with Iran
Staging Nukes for Iran?
By Larry Johnson
Why the hubbub over a B-52 taking off from a B-52 base in Minot, North Dakota and subsequently landing at a B-52 base in Barksdale, Louisiana? That’s like getting excited if you see a postal worker in uniform walking out of a post office. And how does someone watching a B-52 land identify the cruise missiles as nukes? It just does not make sense.
So I called a old friend and retired B-52 pilot and asked him. What he told me offers one compelling case of circumstantial evidence. My buddy, let’s call him Jack D. Ripper, reminded me that the only times you put weapons on a plane is when they are on alert or if you are tasked to move the weapons to a specific site.
Then he told me something I had not heard before.
Barksdale Air Force Base is being used as a jumping off point for Middle East operations. Gee, why would we want cruise missile nukes at Barksdale Air Force Base. Can’t imagine we would need to use them in Iraq. Why would we want to preposition nuclear weapons at a base conducting Middle East operations?
His final point was to observe that someone on the inside obviously leaked the info that the planes were carrying nukes. A B-52 landing at Barksdale is a non-event. A B-52 landing with nukes. That is something else.
Now maybe there is an innocent explanation for this? I can’t think of one. What is certain is that the pilots of this plane did not just make a last minute decision to strap on some nukes and take them for a joy ride. We need some tough questions and clear answers. What the hell is going on? Did someone at Barksdale try to indirectly warn the American people that the Bush Administration is staging nukes for Iran? I don’t know, but it is a question worth asking.
Larry C Johnson Bio
Mr. Johnson, who worked previously with the Central Intelligence Agency and U.S. State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism, is a recognized expert in the fields of terrorism, aviation security, crisis and risk management.
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Comment by U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan, (D-ND)
google news commentComment from Senator Dorgan - 9 hours ago
U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) asked the U.S. Air Force Wednesday for a full classified briefing on a published report that a B-52 bomber was mistakenly loaded with nuclear weapons and then flew from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana on August 30.
Dorgan said he received some preliminary information from the Department of Defense Tuesday, but he is asking now for a full briefing on the matter as soon as possible.
Dorgan, who serves on the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, said that the "command and control" of weapons in the U.S. nuclear arsenal "is one of the most important duties of the military chain of command. I'm very concerned about published reports that some nuclear weapons may have been improperly handled or perhaps removed from the nuclear chain of control. I want a full, classified briefing to understand exactly what happened and what is being done to make sure it cannot happen again."
"Nothing is more important than safeguarding the security, command and control of our nuclear stockpile," Dorgan said.
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