what is the code word for lost nuclear weapons?
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Broken Arrow: "An accidental event that involves nuclear weapons or nuclear components but which does not create the risk of nuclear war, known as a Broken Arrow in United States military terminology." - Wikipedia.
There was a 1996 Movie named Broken Arrow, with stolen nuclear weapons being the main plot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Arrow_(1996_film)
The difference between Broken Arrow & Empty Quiver:
Pinnacle - Broken Arrow can be used when a weapon is lost, but no threat of war.
Pinnacle - Empty Quiver can be used for a seizure, theft, or loss of a functioning nuclear weapon. War is a possible outcome.
Tom Clancy created a new term "Rogue Spear" in his fictional world, which means the same thing as the real phrase "Pinnacle - Empty Quiver."
Tom Clancy's novel The Sum of all Fears, correctly uses the term Empty Quiver; when an Israeli weapon is stolen by terrorists.
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These include:
Accidental or unexplained nuclear detonation.
Non-nuclear detonation or burning of a nuclear weapon.
Radioactive contamination.
"Loss in transit" of nuclear asset with or without its carrying vehicle.
Jettisoning of a nuclear weapon or nuclear component.
Public hazard, actual or implied.
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E2.1.10. EMPTY QUIVER. A reporting term to identify and report the seizure, theft, or loss of a U.S. nuclear weapon.
E2.1.2. BENT SPEAR. A Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff term used in the Department of Defense to identify and report a nuclear weapon significant incident involving a nuclear weapon or warhead, nuclear components, or vehicle when nuclear loaded. This term includes a significant incident as defined in DoD Directive 5100.52
(reference (c)).
E2.1.3. BROKEN ARROW. A Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff term to
identify and report an accident involving a nuclear weapon or warhead or nuclear component. (See definition E2.1.23., below, nuclear weapon accident.)
Your right ... but broken arrow might as well apply because the loss of such a weapon had better be an "accident."
http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/523016p.pdf