2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident
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2007-united-states-air-force-nuclear-weapons-incident-167-15487924
title:
2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident
text:
On 29 August 2007, six AGM-129 ACM cruise missiles, each loaded with a W80-1 variable yield nuclear warhead, were mistakenly loaded onto a United States Air Force (USAF) B-52H heavy bomber at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota and transported to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. The nuclear warheads in the missiles were supposed to have been removed before the missiles were taken from their storage bunker. The missiles with the nuclear warheads were not reported missing and remained mount
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Accidental loading of warheads onto an aircraft
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_States_Air_Force_nuclear_weapons_incident
date created:
2007-09-24T01:48:40Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T13:34:35Z
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13
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