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Taiwan was the focus for the Pentagon correspondents at CBS and ABC. Both covered the inventory snafu by the United States Air Force under which the nosecone fuses for Minuteman nuclear missiles were apparently mistaken for helicopter batteries and shipped from a Utah warehouse to the Taiwanese military. ABC's Jonathan Karl (embargoed link) observed that the two items "look nothing alike" and are "not remotely the same size." He imagined that the People's Republic of China "cannot be happy about technology like this going to its rival." Mused David Martin on CBS: "For a country that constantly lectures others about the danger of loose nukes falling into the hands of terrorists, the United States has been alarmingly sloppy in handling its own nuclear weapons."
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