Can you say clusterfuck?

According to the New York Times, the Defense Secretary had to fire both the civilian and military leaders of the Air Force over the recent mishandling (as in shipping them to Taiwan, of all places) of fuses for nuclear weapons: "The inquiry involving the Air Force was an effort to determine how four high-tech electrical nose cone fuses for Minuteman nuclear warheads were sent to Taiwan in place of helicopter batteries. The mistake was discovered in March — a year and a half after the mistaken shipment."

Rico says it's obvious; somebody misread the part numbers...