that nuclear armed B-52

[thisficklemob]

Did you hear about that B-52 "accidentally" carrying nukes from one base to another today? Yeah, I didn't pay it much mind, until I saw this commentary on TPM Cafe (via Digbysblog) and went, OH SHIT:

And how does someone watching a B-52 land identify the cruise missiles as nukes? It just does not make sense

Comments

[bailunrui]

Oh. Shit. *is scared*

[thisficklemob]

*clings*

You know, they've made footage from right after the Atomic Bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki into a documentary, White Light Black Rain. I really really don't want to see it. I have been to the Hiroshima Museum in Hiroshima.

But there are people I think really need to see it, starting with the Bushies, going through all the media people who called Obama stating he wouldn't nuke camps (camps) a gaffe, and ending with the "nuke the bastards" wingnuts.

As a very small silver lining, if this was a leak, at least that means there are military people out there still pushing away from the insanity...

[bailunrui]

Some people are so blase about nuclear weapons. It blows my mind.

[thisficklemob]

I think most of them just have no idea what they do. They didn't read Barefoot Gen as a kid like I did. And the rest of them are some combination of racists, nationalists, yeehaadists, and sociopaths, and they just don't care. Or have somehow convinced themselves such manmade hell can ever be "worth it."

[kimbari]

Or they think it won't affect *them* because, please... they're THEM.

a song called "Danger" is playing, how apropos....