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The Third Man
10-27-10, 11:34 AM
Its like something out of a movie.......truth can indeed be stranger than fiction. How the Atlantic got the story is another issue.



Oct 26 2010, 4:36 PM ET

President Obama was briefed this morning on an engineering power failure at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming that took 50 nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), one-ninth of the U.S. missile stockpile, temporarily offline on Saturday.

The base (http://thewyonews.net/2010/03/31/impact-of-u-s-russia-nuclear-treaty-on-state%E2%80%99s-f-e-warren-air-force-base-unknown/) is a main locus of the United States' strategic nuclear forces. The 90th Missile Wing, headquartered there, controls 150 Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic nuclear missiles. They're on full-time alert and are housed in a variety of bunkers across several states.





http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/10/power-failure-shuts-down-sqaudron-of-icbms/65207/
FIREWALL
10-27-10, 11:45 AM
That's what happens when you don't pay your power bill. :haha:
gimpy117
10-27-10, 02:20 PM
oh heaven forbid we lose a whole 9th of our nukes. :O:
Oberon
10-27-10, 02:22 PM
Don't worry, it was just Skynet setting itself up... :yep:
krashkart
10-27-10, 06:05 PM
Don't worry, it was just Skynet setting itself up... :yep:

I thought Matthew Broderick was playing with his WOPR again. :DL
FIREWALL
10-27-10, 06:27 PM
I thought Matthew Broderick was playing with his WOPR again. :DL


Mmmmm BurgerKing. :DL
Platapus
10-27-10, 06:36 PM
At no time was the capability of the US to launch these missiles compromised. When it comes to Nuclear Release Authority, there are redundant systems and redundant to the redundant systems. Then there are the back up systems and the back up back up systems.

General LeMay set up a good system. Nothing in the SIOP can have a single point of failure... or even two points of failure. :yep:
Ducimus
10-27-10, 06:47 PM
Failing that, i'd wager the base Civil Engineering would have things back up and running in no time.
ETR3(SS)
10-27-10, 06:50 PM
:yawn: But then again I suppose if you weren't a part of the nuclear triad during some point of your life you would be shocked by this news, maybe even feel a little exposed.
TLAM Strike
10-27-10, 07:54 PM
When they turned the power back on they saw something on their computer screens...

Would you like to play a game?
ReFaN
10-28-10, 03:45 AM
Probably dem dam ruskies at it again.


FIRE THEM ALL, WE STILL HAVE A CHANCE AT MUTUAL ASSURED DESTRUCTIOn, FIRE FIRE FIR.. Sorry, got caught up in the act. :shucks: