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2008-09-12 Home Front: Politix

Gates: Air Force may consolidate nuclear control

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Posted by tu3031 2008-09-12 11:45|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 "..as soon as the Air Farce learns how to control their own nuclear..."

Posted by USN, Ret. 2008-09-12 13:15|| 2008-09-12 13:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Here's a basic, perhaps stupidly so, question -

Does the Army have any nuclear arsenal? I recall the nuclear artillery shells from decades ago, but does the current Army command have a separate nuclear component, or is it left to the USAF, and USN-sub service?

Posted by Halliburton - Idiot Suppression Division 2008-09-12 14:05|| 2008-09-12 14:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Missiles, I would assume. Used to be Pershings, dunno what it would be now.

Posted by Fred 2008-09-12 15:19|| 2008-09-12 15:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Sorry, but it's a non-nuclear Army today:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3723/is_200805/ai_n25501407

Posted by Darrell 2008-09-12 15:32|| 2008-09-12 15:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Good news is that an USMC NCO Cabal strike force retrived a good deal of the US Army fissile material, most of it is hidden in holes various on Paris Island Depot. Moved each day, sometimes more than once.

Posted by .5MT 2008-09-12 17:01|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-09-12 17:01|| Front Page Top

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