U.S. Loses Touch with 50 Missiles

Can you say oops? The United States temporarily lost contact with 50 armed missiles over the weekend for about 45 minutes.

Early Saturday, five ground control centers at Warren Air Force Base, near Cheyenne, Wyo., each of which has launch control for the same 50 nuclear armed intercontinental ballistic missiles, experienced a communication glitch, Fox News reported.

The channel reported that four of the five control centers came back online, but one of them is still off-line while experts attempt to diagnose the breakdown. The Air Force insists it could have launched the missiles at any time.

London's Daily Mail newspaper called it "one of the most nerve-racking 45-minute periods U.S. military chiefs have ever known."