The US military cannot locate hundreds of sensitive nuclear missile components, according to several government officials familiar with a Pentagon report on nuclear safeguards.

Robert Gates, US defence secretary, recently fired both the US Air Force chief of staff and air force secretary after an investigation blamed the air force for the inadvertent shipment of nuclear missile nose cones to Taiwan.

According to previously undisclosed details obtained by the FT, the investigation also concluded that the air force could not account for many sensitive components previously included in its nuclear inventory.

One official said the number of missing components was more than 1,000.

Hm’m.  Didn’t we invade Iraq 5 years ago because Saddam wouldn’t disclose the where abouts of his weapons of mass destruction?  How many times did Saddam Hussein tell the U.N. that he didn’t ‘have’ or ‘know' where they were when asked?

I sure hope the U.N. doesn’t come asking where ‘our’ WMD’s are.  Some big country just might decide we’re not telling the truth when we say “we don’t know where they are”.  They might decide to invade us and capture our President.