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US Air Force personnel broke a nuclear missile

It became known, thanks to the official statement of the US Air Force, posted in the publication of the Associated Press. True, the Air Force reported this incident not immediately, but almost a year and a half after the incident that occurred in mid-May 2014.

According to the statement, three servicemen of the 320th missile squadron of the 90th missile wing of the US Air Force, with regular maintenance of the intercontinental ballistic missile with the nuclear warhead Minutman, showed incompetence, as a result of which the missile came to a "non-working condition".

For reference: "Minuteman" is a multi-stage ballistic missile, which has been in service with the US Army since 1970 and is constantly being refined. Its nuclear charge is about 2 Megatons in the TNT equivalent, and its range is 13,000 kilometers. For 2008, the United States had 450 units of such missiles.

Later, the rocket was removed from the launch pit and subjected to repair, which cost nearly 2 million dollars. The statement from the Air Force does not disclose the details, as well as the future fate of negligent soldiers, but assures that there is no threat to safety or radioactive contamination and was not.

This is not the first time such negligence in the performance of responsible assignments: in 2013, the Air Force officers were punished for leaving open the doors to the underground bunker from which nuclear missile launches were launched, a year later an investigation was opened into illegal storage of drugs by two more Air Force officers. Also, a story was widely publicized with the decommissioning of test tests for knowledge of nuclear missile launch systems by officers of the 341st rocket wing.

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