In addition to violently roiling the Air Force for months, the infamous "Minot Incident" of August 2007 did something else. It highlighted a new view of the future of nuclear-armed cruise missiles.rnThat event saw B-52Hbombers unwittingly fly operational Advanced Cruise Missiles fromMinotAFB,N.D., down to Barksdale AFB, La. Mostly unremarked is that weapons were being taken south for decommissioning. The Defense Department is retiring the nuclear-armed AGM-129 ACM entirely.
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