The invasion of Iraq seems to have made the US more vulnerable to the horrors of nuclear weapons.  On August 29, US airmen accidentally flew nuclear warheads across the country for 36 hours, “the first known flight by a nuclear-armed bomber over U.S. airspace, without special high-level authorization, in nearly 40 years.”  The incident “provoked new questions inside and outside the Pentagon about the adequacy of U.S. nuclear weapons safeguards while the military’s attention and resources are devoted to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

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