Government Blunders

[Heretic]

Just read this story from the Sunday herald...


How the US forgot how to make Trident missiles (http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.2494129.0.0.php)
Inquiry cites loss of files and key staff as reason for $69m repair delayBy Rob Edwards, Environment Editor

PLANS TO refurbish Trident nuclear weapons had to be put on hold because US scientists forgot how to manufacture a component of the warhead, a US congressional investigation has revealed.It reminded me of other recent blunders the GOV has made...

Air Force investigates mistaken transport of nuclear warheads (http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/05/loose.nukes/index.html)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Six nuclear warheads on cruise missiles were mistakenly carried on a flight from North Dakota to Louisiana last week, prompting a major investigation, military officials have confirmed.

US nuclear warheads missing for 3 hours (http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/us-nuclear-warheads-missing-for-3-hours-13473198.html)

The US Air Force has launched an investigation after a B-52 bomber flew across the US last week mistakenly loaded with nuclear-armed missiles.

US Nuclear weapons lab Los Alamos is missing 80 computers (http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25053674-12377,00.html)

EIGHTY computers have been lost, stolen or gone "missing" at a major US nuclear weapons lab, the nonprofit US watchdog group Project On Government Oversight (POGO) says....while browsing, I came across this New York Times article vintage 1989

Dozens of Atomic Warheads Lost In Sea by Superpowers, Study Says (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE1DD1438F934A35755C0A96F9482 60)
By ANDREW ROSENTHAL, Special to The New York Times
Published: Wednesday, June 7, 1989

LEAD: Accidents involving American and Soviet ships, bombers and rockets have left at least 50 warheads and nine nuclear reactors scattered on the ocean floors since 1956, according to a comprehensive study of naval accidents that was released today.

Accidents involving American and Soviet ships, bombers and rockets have left at least 50 warheads and nine nuclear reactors scattered on the ocean floors since 1956, according to a comprehensive study of naval accidents that was released today.

So far, the United States has acknowledged that radioactive material leaked into the ocean from only a hydrogen bomb dropped accidentally into the ocean south of Japan in 1965 by an aircraft carrier.
I was hoping you could dig in the archives and post some of your favorite Government Blunders

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[Bobbi]

Incompetency at it's finest.

[zorgon]

Practice for the next 9/11...

One of those 'blundered' nukes will find its way to a 'terrorist' who will use it on a city... and we will all have no problems believing some blunder was responsible

Right?

[Norval]

Yes, Zorgon, I agree it will be "just a blunder"

, , , now where is that rolls eyes smilie,, hmmmmm

This one? :001_rolleyes:

[Zenbuoy]

Nice idea Heretic

Donny Rummy misplaces change before running out on the Pentagon lawn


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more from "Anxiety Culture" (http://www.anxietyculture.com/cbs.htm)


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[zorgon]

Nasa forgot how they got to the moon

Wired TV PBS Release
SPACE JUNKYARD

http://www.pbs.org/kcet/wiredscience/video/282-space_junkyard.html:pickinonme:

All that talk about reverse engineering Alien space craft and we still have to reverse engineer the old Apollo stuff just to figure how they did it

[Norval]

awwww gawd, , thank you , , , thank you, , yah see us old farts have some knowledge that is still needed, , :lol: , , , if they wants to get back to the moon that is, , holy friggin stupidity, , thank you,, :lol:

[sfth13]

:iagree: just when you think you heard it all....:rolllaugh:

[Norval]

I was hoping you could dig in the archives and post some of your favorite Government Blunders

Bobbi and I watched the movie Space Cowboys last night, , The Ripe Stuff, , , ,
Just taking a break and enjoying thinking about the frustration some must be feeling because of the inability to figure things out any more. Right here in the marina we get to watch the fiascoes of some struck with this "blindness" and incompetence syndrome. Actually, , , most, not some.

[Gale]

You otta see some people renting professional construction equipment when they have no idea how to even run the equipment. Even the contractors have cut off fingers with chainsaws.

[Bobbi]

Here's yet another gem from my friend.



Maxine

"BAIL EM OUT! ????

Hell, back in 1990, the Government seized the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada for tax evasion and, as required by law, tried to run it. They failed and it closed. Now we are trusting the economy of our country and our banking system to the same nit-wits who couldn't make money running a whore house and selling whiskey!"