The Wake-Up Flight of a Wayward B-52 - New York Times

The Wake-Up Flight of a Wayward B-52 - New York Times: "A B-52 bomber took off from an Air Force base in North Dakota in August and — in a startling mistake attributed to post-cold war operational complacency — carried six nuclear-tipped cruise missiles on a 1,400-mile flight to a base in Louisiana. The missile tips should have been dummies, but somehow actual nuclear warheads were loaded for the cross-country trip."