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Armored vehicle collides into truck with nuclear missile in US: Video

Thursday, 05 November 2015 8:07 PM [ Last Update: Friday, 06 November 2015 4:43 AM ]

A video has surfaced showing a US nuclear warhead rammed into by its security escort.

An astonishing video has surfaced showing an armored escort vehicle colliding into a nuclear warhead in the United States. 

The film shows the moment a nuclear warhead loaded onto a truck is bumped into by its own armed escort in an embarrassing slip-up.

Reports suggest that the nuclear device was being transported by a truck surrounded by a convoy of heavily-armored cars along a busy motorway.

Witnesses say a number of helicopters were flying overhead as a police escort and the US Army attempted to transit the sensitive load near Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana.

(Warning: strong language!)

The video shows that as the convoy moves along, the truck carrying the dangerous load brakes and one of the escort cars rear-ends it.

The convoy kept moving and no one appeared to be hurt in the incident.

The US government has assigned a code to each nuclear incident, indicating the importance of such matters.

The US Nuclear Weapons Command and Control, Safety, and Security service uses the code “Bent Spear” when referring to incidents involving the transportation of nuclear material.

More serious incidents are dubbed "Arrow" and top level critical issues are known as "Pinnacle."

The man who captured the video said that police tried to stop him as he stood filming in the city of Great Falls.

The incident is not unprecedented as in 1996, a driver transporting two nuclear weapons flipped his rig in an ice storm in Nebraska.

Two similar incidents were reported in Tennessee and Montana in 2003, while a year later a truck leaked, according to the media, "less than a pint" of liquefied yellowcake uranium in North Carolina.

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