{"id":38533,"date":"2013-11-21T04:55:20","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T09:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38533"},"modified":"2013-11-21T05:26:13","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T10:26:13","slug":"continuing-nuclear-kingdom-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38533","title":{"rendered":"Continuing &#8220;Nuclear Kingdom&#8221; Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve written before on issues with the management and command of our strategic nuclear forces <a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35500\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 And <a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37911\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 And <a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38095\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not an issue that showed up yesterday, either.\u00a0 Jonn <a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1820\">wrote about the fallout from similar problems<\/a> 5+ years ago.\u00a0 And another TAH contributor, Old Tanker, has written about it again <a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37936\">here<\/a> recently as well.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, it looks as if there really are some serious and continuing issues in DoD&#8217;s \u201cNuclear Kingdom\u201d. \u00a0This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/article\/20131120\/NEWS05\/311200022\/USAF-nuke-troubles-run-deep-key-officers-burned-out-\">Military Times article<\/a> has additional details.\u00a0 IMO it\u2019s worth reading.<\/p>\n<p>My \u201cgut feel\u201d is that this really is a serious problem.\u00a0 And IMO, it\u2019s one problem DoD <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">really does<\/span><\/span> need to fix pronto.<\/p>\n<p>The last thing we need is a stolen or lost nuke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve written before on issues with the management and command of our strategic nuclear forces here.\u00a0 And here.\u00a0 And here. It\u2019s not an issue that showed up yesterday, either.\u00a0 Jonn wrote about the fallout from similar problems 5+ years ago.\u00a0 And another TAH contributor, Old Tanker, has written about it again here recently as well. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-a1v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}