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The unit went through retraining and passed the exercise several weeks later. green says standards remain high because there's just no room for failure with the nation's nuclear weapons. >> i mean, a failure can mean missing a required action by a second. it can mean responding to something, you know, a moment or two late. >> in recent months, the air force has been plagued in the nuclear sector with morale problems, disciplinary problems. the issue at hand here, this is a part of the military that operates, perhaps, in the most high-pressure environment. there is no room for failure. wolf? >>...

Going to push. no wonder there's morale problems here. you have to feel for them. and here you've just stripped away the top command at one of the bases. basically ending these people's careers, although they'll stay in the air force for a little while longer. but does this solve the problem? the general who briefed today said we're not just putting a fresh coat of paint on the problem, but it sure feels like this. they're treating this as a training problem, a procedural discipline. and they're putting into place new training, procedures and disciplinarians. but they're not getting at the und...

>> the commander was allowed to resign both from his command and the air force, he wrote a heart felt letter to the airmen explaining his decision to resign and essentially excoriating them for nobody coming forward to complain about the cheating. nobody willing to come forward to say i know this is happening and it's wrong. he described it essentially as an integrity problem. that implies a sort of human failure that's unrelated to the nuclear mission. do you see this as something that's nuclear specific or a broader problem that has nothing to do with those missiles? >> you have to feel for ...

>> you spent six years studying the management of our nuclear arsenal. what did you think when you heard the store tore break yesterday that the general who is really supposed to be in charge of the arsenal was drunk in moscow and frat noising with two women thought to be profit touts? >> my book is full of stories with problems with the nuclear weapons and i was shocked by his behavior. he is in charge of all of our land based missile and at one point he was drunkenly trying to climb on stage in a mexican restaurant in moscow because he wanted to sing beatle songs. this is like out of dr. str...

Mustard gas to stop an iranian incursion in northern iraq. by 1984, the iraqis moved past tear gas and mustard gas on the battlefield to become the first country anywhere in the world to use nerve gas in a combat situation on the battlefield. the details of those attacks are spelled out in great detail in recently declassified cia documented just been published by "foreign policy" magazine today. the cia knew all this was happening in iran and iraq as it was happening. "iraq had begun using nerve agents on the al basrah front. if iraq starts using nerve agents in large quantities, tehran will ...