Thursday, March 27, 2008

Its midnight, do you know where your nukes are?

Findmyhappyplacefindmyhappyplacefindmyhappyplace...

From CNN:

Pentagon: Inventory ordered of all U.S. nukes

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has formally ordered the Air Force, Navy and Defense Logistics Agency to conduct an inventory of all U.S. nuclear weapons and nuclear weapon-related materials to make sure all items are accounted for, according to a Pentagon memo released Thursday.

The order comes in the wake of the discovery last week that four nuclear warhead fuses were accidentally shipped to Taiwan in 2006.
Ummm...can I get the results of that inventory sent to my cell phone?

And then there is this:
Colombia seizes uranium from leftist guerrillas

BOGOTA, March 26 (Reuters) - Colombia said it seized at least 66 pounds (30 kg) of uranium from the country's biggest left-wing rebel group on Wednesday, the first time radioactive material has been linked to the four-decade-old guerrilla war.

The uranium was found in a rural area long considered a Marxist guerrilla stronghold just south of the capital Bogota.

It is being examined by government experts, the defense ministry said in a statement, although it did not say where the material came from or what it could be used for.
On the bright side at least we didn't accidentally ship nuclear warhead fuses to Columbia.

H/T to The Glittering Eye