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50 Nuclear Missiles Drop Offline

By John Noonan
Published October 26, 2010 8:43pm ET
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50 Nuclear Missiles Drop Offline
The Atlantic (and now Wired) is reporting that an entire squadron of nuclear missiles unexpectedly dropped into a “launch facility down” status on Saturday morning, taking a sizable portion of America’s nuclear deterrent offline: President Obama was briefed this morning on a power failure at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming that took 50 […]

The Atlantic (and now Wired) is reporting that an entire squadron of nuclear missiles unexpectedly dropped into a “launch facility down” status on Saturday morning, taking a sizable portion of America’s nuclear deterrent offline:

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