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The Spectacle Blog
This morning the President was briefed on a power failure that briefly shut down 50 nuclear missiles over the weekend. Marc Ambinder and Noah Shachtman report.
“The White House response to the incident has been jaw dropping,” writes John Noonan, a former Air Force missile launch officer. He contends that, despite the official line that this is “not that big of a deal,” it’s actually a huge deal, and underscores the need to update aging delivery systems. Noonan suggests that this could impact the debate over ratification of New START; my sense is that that treaty was already on shaky ground.
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CalMark| 10.26.10 @ 9:19PM
Why panic? Why even care? They're probably jumping for joy.
This just gives the Obamoids an excuse to decommission these systems. Now that we have govt. health care and trillion-dollar annual deficits, we can't afford the luxury of all these unnecessary military toys.
Tim the Enchanter| 10.27.10 @ 11:20AM
Spammer. Get lost.
Tim Williams| 10.27.10 @ 8:17AM
That's not a power failure. That's a super-power failure.
Zilla of the Resistance | 10.27.10 @ 9:12AM
Just like how they used the Gulf Oil spill to try to shut down drilling and push Cap & Tax again, they will use this as an excuse to further Obama's goal of leaving America completely defenseless to other nuclear powers - as is his intention. Never let a crisis go to waste!
In the future, living in a house whose walsl are thickly coated in lead paint might not be such a bad thing...
Too Many Tims| 10.27.10 @ 9:23AM
"Senate Republicans have been pressing Senate Democrats to spend more money ..."
At last, something worthy of taking out a Chinese loan for.