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Thursday, November 21, 2013

Nuke missiles’ keepers are burned out

LGM-30 MinutemanTrouble inside the Air Force's nuclear missile force runs deeper and wider than officials have let on.

An unpublished study for the Air Force cites "burnout" among launch officers with their fingers on triggers of 450 weapons of mass destruction as well as evidence of broader behavioral issues across the intercontinental ballistic missile force, including sexual assaults and domestic violence.

The study, provided in draft form to The Associated Press, says court-martial rates in the ICBM force in 2011 and 2012 were more than twice as high as in the overall Air Force.

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