Last month I wrote about a B-52 bomber that accidentally mounted 6 nuclear warheads and flew across the country. Though my initial post sparked some controversy, digressing into a conversation about the existence of nuclear weapons, I still think the missing nuclear weapons was irresponsible and, frankly, scary.

I was happy to read yesterday, “The US Air Force has relieved several officers of their commands after.” Infact:

Three colonels, a lieutenant colonel and 66 other personnel were punished following the incident at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, on 29 August.

“In the countless times our dedicated airmen have transferred weapons in our nation’s arsenal, nothing like this has ever occurred,” the Air Force deputy chief of staff for operations said.
Gen Newton said the “unprecedented string of procedural errors” had begun with a failure by airmen to conduct a required inspection of the missiles before they were loaded onto the wing of the B-52 at Minot.

“We hold ourselves accountable to the American people and want to ensure proper corrective action has been taken.”

In my book, “proper corrective action” would be to disarm all nuclear weapons, as there existence is unacceptable. Kill the precedent. Nobody should have nuclear weapons.

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