In the comments over my recent post on Libya’s remaining stockpile of Scud B missiles, some commentators asked about press reports that NATO aircraft shot down a Scud B. I can now confirm that did not/not happen.
Araxos, A-Bombs & Alcohol
by | 2011-08-25 | 17 Comments
Kingston Reif at Nukes of Hazard noticed a “quote of the day” from a former Air Force nuclear weapons officer who claimed that US nuclear weapons had been stored at a NATO airbase manned by unmotivated conscripts and an alcoholic commander. Turns out, he was writing about Greece.
Fail Safe
by | 2011-08-23 | 8 Comments
Let’s not argue about this: the three greatest films about the Bomb are John Frankenheimer’s Seven Days in May, Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove and Sidney Lumet’s Fail Safe. All three were released in 1964, when movie-goers were still trying to forget the Cuban missile crisis. Previous posts have given kudos to Dr. Strangelove and Seven …
Libya’s Scud-B Force
by | 2011-08-22 | 34 Comments
Update | 11:53 pm Looks like three more Scuds now. I have, on occasion, thought about writing a little post about the disposition of Libya’s force of Scud-B missiles. The apparent collapse of the Qadhafi regime seems as auspicious an occasion as any. As his regime collapsed, Qadhafi’s forces fired a Scud-B missile at the …
