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July 31st, 2008
Posted: 06:29 PM ET
(CNN) — A truck carrying an unarmed missile booster tipped over in North Dakota on Thursday, the latest in a string of Air Force mishaps and at least the second public mistake since the force’s top leaders were fired in June for a “pattern of poor performance” involving the U.S. nuclear arsenal. The vehicle, which was carrying a Minuteman III rocket booster, tipped on its side on a gravel road about 70 miles southwest of Minot Air Force Base. The crew received only minor injuries. Last week, the Air Force announced that three officers fell asleep July 12 while in control of a classified electronic part that contained old launch codes for intercontinental nuclear missiles. It happened during the changing out of electronic parts used to communicate with Minot Air Force Base. The two incidents came after a high-profile error last August, when a B-52 bomber flew from Minot to Louisiana with the crew unaware that six nuclear-tipped missiles were onboard, and a 2006 accidental shipment to Taiwan of components that arm and fuse nuclear warheads. |
 
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