LOTS More Nuclear Sh1t Missing

We all know about the armed nuclear missles that "inadvertantly" wandered to Louisiana, and the missile nose cones mistakenly shipped to Taiwan and left there for a couple years [insert yawn here], all of which cost the Air Force Chief of Staff and the Secretary of the Air Force their jobs. As they say on the late night infomercials, Wait! There's More!

The US military cannot locate hundreds of sensitive nuclear missile components, according to several government officials familiar with a Pentagon report on nuclear safeguards.

Lets review here children, that's hundreds, which is dozens of dozens, or a bunch, any way you look at it.

One official said the number of missing components was more than 1,000.

That's getting up to the dozens of hundreds (in case our Fearless Leader is reading this, or having it read to him).

Mr Gates added that the Pentagon was evaluating the results of a "comprehensive inventory of all nuclear and nuclear-related materials [conducted] to re-establish positive control of these sensitive, classified components".

Adm Donald briefed Congress on the results of his investigation on Wednesday. Bryan Whitman, Pentagon spokesman, declined to comment on the classified report.

I can't imagine why they wouldn't want to comment.

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I have a bit of experience, many moons ago, in the handling of "special materials" and the controls that were, a quarter-century ago, attendant thereto. In something over three years of intimate involvement the most we ever "lost" were some small, unique "clamps" that made wonderful roach clips, or at least adequate ones (their wonderfulosity was actually in their origin), but we never "lost" any of those that were serving their original purpose in an actual warhead. I cannot imagine how the Air Force has allowed itself to get this lax in this area.

I guess all those years when we called them the Air Farce we weren't that wrong.