U.S. bomber mistakenly flies with nuclear weapons
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A U.S. bomber mistakenly flew with nuclear warheads over the United States last week, but the Air Force on Wednesday said the flight was not a threat to public safety.
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A squadron of Raptor jets used by the U.S. Air Force was forced to return to base in Hawaii after a software glitch cropped up during a flight to Japan. The glitch has since been fixed.
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A US aircraft dropped a quarter-tonne (500 lb) bomb on the northern Iraqi city of Mosul yesterday after guerrillas attacked a US patrol that was trying to capture an insurgent arms dump, a military spokesman said.
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If clear skies break over southern California on Monday, a B-52 bomber will take off from Edwards air force base and head out over the Pacific.
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Dutch broadcaster RTV Noord Holland said it had received an email warning that there was a bomb on board a Chicago-bound United Airlines/Scandinavian Airlines plane that had left Amsterdam's Schipol airport shortly after 11:00 am (0900 GMT).
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Stupid question...   "BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- At least five people were killed when a coalition F-16 mistakenly bombed a house south of Mosul, Iraq, the U.S. military said Saturday."  "U.S.-led multinational forces were searching for an insurgent cell leader and hit the house with a 500-pound bomb, the military said in a statement."  "The correct target was nearby, the military said."  If this were to happen in the US I'm sure the pilots would be brought up on charges.  Isn't this just manslaughter?    ...  "Fourteen people lived in the house, neighbors said."  ""Multi-National Force-Iraq deeply regrets the loss of possibly innocent lives," the statement said."  Mighty nice of them to deeply  ...
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Russian bomber aircraft approached a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Pacific on Saturday and were intercepted by American fighter jets, a U.S. defense official said on Monday.
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If clear skies break over southern California tomorrow, a B-52 bomber will take off from Edwards air force base and head out over the Pacific.
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As many as six nuclear warheads, each with a destructive potential almost 10 times that of the Hiroshima bomb, were mistakenly flown across the US, Pentagon officials conceded yesterday.
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U.S. military commanders in Iraq didn't know Turkey was sending warplanes to bomb in northern Iraq until the planes had already crossed the border
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It was a mistake, the Air Force says -- and the public was never in danger. But nevertheless, a B-52 armed with six nuclear warheads flew for more than three hours last week across several states. They meant to take the warheads off the missiles before they mounted them under the wings, but somebody goofed. A commander is fired over the incident.
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Russian long-range bombers which this  month resumed their Soviet-era practice of flying long-range  patrols near NATO airspace are not armed with nuclear weapons,  a senior air force commander said on Monday.
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A U.S. Air Force base in Germany received a bomb threat hours before the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, military officials said.
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Russian bomber aircraft approached a  U.S. aircraft carrier in the Pacific on Saturday and were  intercepted by American fighter jets, a U.S. defense official  said on Monday.
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Four Air Force colonels have been relieved of their commands and more than 65 lower-ranking officers and airmen have been disciplined over a series of errors that led to a B-52 flight in August from North Dakota to Louisiana with six nuclear-armed cruise missiles that no one realized were under the...
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A video posted by an Iraqi insurgent group Sunday purported to show last week's suicide attack at a U.S. base in Mosul, with a fireball rising from a white tent. The group claimed that the bomber slipped into the base through a hole in the fence during a guard change.
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U.S. planes struck a militant stronghold that has recently been coordinating attacks against coalition forces.