{"id":69196,"date":"2007-09-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/09\/07\/le-b-52-on-the-road-de-minot-a-barksdale-avec-six-cruise-missiles-a-tetes-nucleaires\/"},"modified":"2007-09-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-07T00:00:00","slug":"le-b-52-on-the-road-de-minot-a-barksdale-avec-six-cruise-missiles-a-tetes-nucleaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/09\/07\/le-b-52-on-the-road-de-minot-a-barksdale-avec-six-cruise-missiles-a-tetes-nucleaires\/","title":{"rendered":"Le B-52 on the road<\/em>, de Minot \u00e0 Barksdale, avec six cruise missiles \u00e0 t\u00eates nucl\u00e9aires\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jamais, depuis 1968, dans tous les cas d’apr\u00e8s ce qu’il en ait connu, un avion charg\u00e9 d’armes nucl\u00e9aires n’avait survol\u00e9 le territoire des Etats-Unis, jusqu’au 30 ao\u00fbt dernier. Il s’agit de l’incident, qui vient d’\u00eatre r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9, d’un B-52, effectuant le 30 ao\u00fbt un vol de la base de Minot \u00e0 celle de Barksdale avec six ACM (Advanced Cruise Missiles) attach\u00e9s \u00e0 des pylones ext\u00e9rieurs, chacun avec une t\u00eate nucl\u00e9aires de 150 kilotonnes (la BA d’Hiroshima faisait 15 kilotonnes). De Minot AFB (Dakota du Nord) \u00e0 Barksdale AFB (Virginie), il y a une distance de plus de 3.000 kilom\u00e8tres, supposant un vol de plusieurs heures. L’incident a fait l’objet d’une communication embarrass\u00e9e du chef d’\u00e9tat-major de l’USAF, dont d\u00e9pend le B-52, au secr\u00e9taire \u00e0 la d\u00e9fense Gates. En principe, les vols d’armes nucl\u00e9aires au-dessus du territoire US n’ont plus lieu depuis 1968 et, m\u00eame, depuis 1991, la pratique de conserver des bombardiers en alerte, arm\u00e9s d’armes nucl\u00e9aires et pr\u00eats \u00e0 d\u00e9coller sur les pistes des bases militaires, a \u00e9t\u00e9 abandonn\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tIl s’agit d’une circonstance extraordinaire, une erreur qui soul\u00e8ve des questions particuli\u00e8rement d\u00e9licates. Les commentateurs de la presse non-MSM ont rapidement \u00e9volu\u00e9 vers deux hypoth\u00e8ses : l’erreur r\u00e9elle ou l’erreur d\u00e9lib\u00e9r\u00e9e. A propos du premier cas, WSWS.org<\/em> note aujourd’hui<\/a>:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abIn response to the episode, the Pentagon has announced that a munitions squadron commander at Minot has been relieved of his duties and several airmen have been decertified for handling nuclear weapons. It also reported that an investigation is continuing.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00bbSomeone had to give the order to mount the missiles on the plane. The question is whether it was a local Air Force commandereither by mistake or deliberatelyor whether the order came from higher up.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe first scenario recalls nothing so much as the 1964 black comedy produced by filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove. The film’s plot centered on the unilateral order given by a delusional air force commander, Gen. Jack D. Ripper, for an air wing to carry out an unprovoked nuclear first strike against the Soviet Union. The US president is shocked to find out that supposed failsafe systems barring any such strike without his direct order have been overridden.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbGiven the Pentagon’s claim that the incident represented a mistake, the Minot-Barksdale flight indicates that the present failsafe systemseither deliberately or inadvertentlydo not prevent a single commander from deploying nuclear weapons.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbExperts on nuclear weapons have described the episode as shocking and inexplicable. It seems so fantastic that so many points, checks can dysfunction, said Hans Kristensen, the Federation of American Scientists chief researcher on US nuclear forces. That’s perhaps what is most worrisome about this particular incidentthat apparently an individual who had command authority about moving these weapons around decided to do so.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbRepresentative Edward Markey, a ranking Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee, issued a statement declaring it absolutely inexcusable that the Air Force lost track of these … warheads, even for a short period of time.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbMarkey added, Nothing like this has ever been reported before and we have been assured for decades that it was impossible.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe implication is that the threat of a nuclear holocaust is even greater today than at the height of the Cold War against the Soviet Union.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00bbThere is another tactical consideration that makes the supposed mix-up at Minot Air Base even more chilling. The Air Force, as well as the Navy, is increasingly making dual use of its cruise missiles, changing nuclear warheads for conventional ones. Conventional Air Launched Cruise Missiles have been used extensively in recent US military interventions. If such a mistake is possible in a flight between two US air bases, presumably it is equally possible in a wartime situation, with the potential of a B-52 launching a nuclear strike against a target that was meant to be hit with a conventional weapon.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLa deuxi\u00e8me hypoth\u00e8se caract\u00e9risant la version de l’erreur est que cela n’en soit pas une \u00abThe second possibilitythat the flight was authorized at a higher levelposes an even more immediate threat.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbB-52s from Barksdale have been used repeatedly to strike targets in Iraq, firing cruise missiles at Iraqi targets in 1996 and 1998, and in the shock and awe campaign that preceded the 2003 invasion, carrying out some 150 bombing runs that devastated much of the southern half of the country.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbMoreover, the weapon that was fixed to the wings of the B-52 flying from Minot air base was designed for use against hardened targets, such as underground bunkers.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbGiven the ratcheting up of the threats against Iran and the previous reports of plans for the use of tactical nuclear weapons against Iranian nuclear installations, there is a very real possibility that the flight to Barksdale was part of covert preparations for a nuclear strike against Iran.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tDans le cadre de cette hypoth\u00e8se, il faut signaler une note br\u00e8ve mais int\u00e9ressante de Larry Johnson, du Booman Tribune<\/em>, telle qu’elle nous est relay\u00e9e par Information Clearing House<\/em> du 6 sptembre<\/a>. Elle reprend la deuxi\u00e8me hypoth\u00e8se d’un vol volontaire, la renforce de certaines pr\u00e9cisions et d\u00e9bouche sur une autre hypoth\u00e8se concernant la fuite qui a permis de conna\u00eetre l’incident.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abSo I called a old friend and retired B-52 pilot and asked him. What he told me offers one compelling case of circumstantial evidence. My buddy, let’s call him Jack D. Ripper, reminded me that the only times you put weapons on a plane is when they are on alert or if you are tasked to move the weapons to a specific site.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThen he told me something I had not heard before.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbBarksdale Air Force Base is being used as a jumping off point for Middle East operations. Gee, why would we want cruise missile nukes at Barksdale Air Force Base. Can’t imagine we would need to use them in Iraq. Why would we want to preposition nuclear weapons at a base conducting Middle East operations?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbHis final point was to observe that someone on the inside obviously leaked the info that the planes were carrying nukes. A B-52 landing at Barksdale is a non-event. A B-52 landing with nukes. That is something else.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLarry Johnson parle donc de \u00absomeone at Barksdale<\/em> [who] try to indirectly warn the American people that the Bush Administration is staging nukes for Iran<\/em>\u00bb. Hypoth\u00e8se int\u00e9ressante, qu’on doit placer dans un cadre g\u00e9n\u00e9ral o\u00f9 la l\u00e9gitimit\u00e9 du pouvoir est aujourd’hui devenu un facteur bien incertain aux USA; dans ce cadre, effectivement, on peut fort bien envisager des initiatives individuelles pour d\u00e9noncer certaines manuvres, voire certaines op\u00e9rations secr\u00e8tes pouvant mener \u00e0 un conflit provoqu\u00e9 avec l’emploi du nucl\u00e9aire.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tQuant au reste de l’hypoth\u00e8se, avec l’USAF agissant de sa propre initiative (sans contr\u00f4le du secr\u00e9taire \u00e0 la d\u00e9fense) ou\/et en connexion avec certains \u00e9l\u00e9ments de l’administration, on peut la rapprocher avec profit de tout ce qu’on sait des positions particuli\u00e8res qu’on conna\u00eet des diff\u00e9rentes armes. On peut la rapprocher notamment de ce qui serait une position en pointe de l’USAF, pour diverses raisons, aussi bien id\u00e9ologiques<\/a> que techniques<\/a>. Dans l’univers aujourd’hui fantasmagorique de Washington, cette sorte de supputation n’est absolument pas d\u00e9plac\u00e9e, d\u00e8s lors qu’effectivement un B-52 avec six ACM \u00e9quip\u00e9s de nucl\u00e9aires a vol\u00e9 de Minot \u00e0 Barksdale le 30 ao\u00fbt.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tMis en ligne le 7 septembre 2007 \u00e0 15H03<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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