Air Force probes nuke missile incident:Stand-down completed as unauthorized transfer of weapons examined

The stand-down of all 100,000 active-duty airmen of the Air Combat Command was completed yesterday in the aftermath of the unauthorized transfer of nuclear weapons from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota.The command-wide review of operations, safety procedures and checklists was ordered after the Aug. 30 incident in which six cruise missiles with nuclear warheads were loaded into a B-52H and flown from Minot to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana-without the bomber crew or ground command realizing nuclear weapons were on the aircraft.Air Force spokesman Lt. Col. Ed Thomas in the Pentagon told WND the Air Force considers the incident "unacceptable," but he insisted the incident posed no danger to the U.S. public."The cruise missiles were mounted under the B-52's wings," Thomas confirmed, "but at no point in the flight were the weapons configured to be deployed."Top Air Force brass has been ordered to investigate the incident.

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