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Air Force Fires 17 Incompetent Nuclear Missile Launch Officers

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The AP is reporting that the US Air Force has decided to strip “an unprecedented 17 officers of their authority to control nuclear missiles after a string of unpublicized failings.” The Minot Air Force Base officers failed their tests to launch Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles, the backbone of the US atomic arsenal. [Gawker]

http://gawker.com/no-biggie-but-our-nuclear-missile-launch-teams-are-inc-496036588

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