Steven Crandell – Cell Phone Video Games a threat to nuclear security
Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Memo #1: Do not let security dudes play video games on their cell phones while guarding nuclear weapons.
Last August, airmen of the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot Air Force Base, in North Dakota managed to load six nuclear-tipped cruise missiles on to a B-52 and fly them to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana where they sat unattended for hours.
Since then, the Air Force changed commanders at Minot and vowed it would tighten security.
DRTA Memo #2: Let's look at limiting cell phone use by guards to only those times when the base is not being attacked.
Then late last week, Michael Hoffman of The Air Force Times reported that Minot Air Force Base just flunked its latest security test.
Hoffman reported that the Times had obtained a copy of a Defense Threat Reduction Agency report on the test. The DTRA report said "security broke down on multiple levels during simulated attacks across the base, including nuclear weapons storage areas ...Inspectors watched as a security forces airman played video games on his cell phone while standing guard at a "restricted area perimeter ..."
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