1994 film "Star Trek Generations" DVD video:
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Dr. Soran: Welcome, Captain. You must think me a madman.
Starfleet Captain Jean-Luc Picard: The thought had crossed my mind.
Dr. Soran: I know why you're here. You're not sure you can shoot down my probe. So you've come to dissuade me from my horrific plan. Good luck.
http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2007/10/airforce_nuke_briefing_071019
Wing decertified, COs sacked for nuke mistake
By Michael Hoffman - Staff writer
Posted : Sunday Oct 21, 2007 14:45:32 EDT
The widespread disregard for nuclear weapons safety standards by airmen at Minot and Barksdale Air Force bases led to the unprecedented “Bent Spear” incident in which six nuclear warheads were mistakenly loaded onto a B-52 and flown from North Dakota to Louisiana on Aug. 29-30, Air Force officials said Friday after an intensive six-week investigation.
The Air Force relieved the 5th Munitions Squadron commander at Minot immediately after the incident. On Friday, it announced that three more commanders have been sacked.
Five steps to failure
Using the same briefing presented to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates earlier Friday, Newton summarized the five mistakes made by airmen that led to the incident and offered a timeline of events.
The first mistake occurred at the beginning of an operation to transport 12 Advanced Cruise Missiles on a B-52 Stratofortress bomber from Minot to Barksdale, part of a Defense Department program to decommission 400 of these missiles in the U.S. stockpile.
On the morning of Aug. 29, airmen assigned to the Minot weapons storage area were supposed to pick up and transport two pylons to a B-52 assigned to Barksdale. Each pylon is a self-contained package of six cruise missiles that can be quickly mounted to the wing of a Stratofortress. But the pylon had not been properly prepared, and the airmen failed to examine all the warheads on the missiles mounted to the pylons.
http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2007_4419130
Nuclear warheads mistakenly flown over U.S. heartland / Air Force probes how B-52 crew was unaware its missiles were live for 1,100-mile trip
CORKY SIEMASZKO New York Daily News, Associated Press
Thu 09/06/2007
Houston Chronicle
NEW YORK - A B-52 bomber mistakenly armed with live nuclear missiles flew straight across the heartland where millions of Americans live - and the crew had no clue what they were carrying.
An Air Force spokesman insisted "there was never a danger to the American public" and called the missile mishap last Thursday an "isolated incident."
"Air Force standards are very exacting when it comes to munitions handling," Lt. Col. Ed Thomas said. "The weapons were always in our custody."
The B-52 was loaded with cruise missiles carrying nuclear warheads ranging from 5 to 150 kilotons in destructive force, mounted onto pylons on the bomber's wings, according to the Military Times newspaper, which broke the story.
"You can wipe out a good-sized city with a 5-kiloton blast," said Jim Riccio, a nuclear policy analyst for Greenpeace. "A 150-kiloton warhead is 10 times the size of what they dropped on Hiroshima."
