Pentagon Retrofits Minuteman III ICBM Silos with B-Plug Kits

If you thought the good old days of living under the threat of global thermonuclear war were over, think again, because the US military keeps shining those Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles just in case the new and coming Chinese aircraft carrier battle groups get funny over the Pacific Ocean. But fear not, because that doesn't mean more missiles. They are just making the silos more secure by installing something called Fast Rising B-Plug Kits in the silos. The obvious questions are: Do they mean they weren't secure enough before? And more importantly, what the heck is a Fast Rising B-Plug? More »