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That's specifically not what the article fails to mention, because it states where both of the bombs were found. You're just thinking of a different narrowly

• andrewflnr 13y ago
  Holy crap. They don't even know for sure if they were real bombs? For that matter, why is carrying real nuclear weapons on a practice run even a possibility?
  • fennecfoxen 13y ago
    I actually read a good book about nuclear bombs in the pre-missile era which directly speaks to that concern: http://www.amazon.com/15-Minutes-General-Countdown-Annihilation/dp/0312611560/ http://www.amazon.com/15-Minutes-General-Countdown-Annihilat... You think carrying bombs on this flight is extraordinary? You don't know the half of it. They were dragging bombs all over the place, all the time, to a ridiculous extent. The practice run could turn into nuclear war while the planes were in the air. And some of the terminology-fiddling is Fun: when they told people things like "the bombs were not armed", they meant that were only a quick switch away from being armed. in related news, the NSA doesn't have "direct access" to Google servers. :P
  • jlgaddis 13y ago
    That was 55 years ago. It's not like incidents like that could happen nowadays. Oh, wait. http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/05/loose.nukes/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/05/loose.nukes/index.html