President Barack Obama has been informed that the US Air Force lost complete command and control of one-ninth of their ICBM arsenal last Saturday. Administration officials stressed that the problem was only temporary, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t big.
We spent the Cold War in perpetual fear that the US and USSR would start an intentional nuclear conflict. The truth is, we came far closer to blowing ourselves up with nuclear weapons than we ever came to WWIII.
A group of retired US Air Force officers say they’ve encountered UFOs and surmise that the space creatures are trying to tell an obstinate human race to abandon its nuclear weapons. That’s right: Earth is being monitored by intergalactic hippies.
Want a ticket for the express line to federal prison? Try selling nuclear secrets to another country. A husband and wife duo – former contractors at the nuke-specialising Los Alamos National Lab – are indicted on charges of exporting secrets to Venezuela.
In 1962, the US government thought it might be a good idea to send a hydrogen bomb hundreds of miles into the air and detonate. Just, you know, to see what happened. Decades later, now you can too.
The scariest thing is that building your own nuke doesn’t seem as hard as it should be. Dangerous and expensive? Yes. Impossible? Not so much. Kim Jong Il, please don’t read this.
When I was a kid I saw The Day After, which left me having nightmares about nuclear bombs exploding in the horizon, and looting supermarkets for chocolate bars. Maybe that’s why I’m itching to buy this dirty bomb emergency kit.
