"...like being in a Tom Clancy novel, if Clancy wrote while taking acid"

Now that the 15th has dawned and there is no hot plasma fallout, it seems that the only the thing to conclude is this whole exercise was an elaborate disinformation designed to distract, manipulate, and/or desensitize people.

On the other hand, the rumors continue. Apparently one of the security crew at Minot Airbase managed to turn up dead, and one of the nukes may be missing. Or so it is said.

Now, if somebody really had enough security access to steal a nuke, don’t you suppose they’d have enough security access to cover it up completely?

Perhaps this whole exercise was an elaborate disinformation designed to distract, manipulate, and/or desensitize people.

Then perhaps this is the kind of thing that happens when media sources are notoriously unreliable and the government starts a land war in Asia based on lies and propagated for profit.