Nuclear Missile Launch Officers 'Cheated Tests'

Dozens of officers responsible for launching US nuclear missiles have been accused of cheating over routine proficiency tests and removed from duty.

The officers, 34 in total, are accused of either cheating or tolerating cheating by others at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana, over monthly tests on how to operate the missiles.

"This is absolutely unacceptable behaviour," Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said.

"It is completely contrary to our core values in the Air Force and as everybody here knows the number one core value for us is integrity.

"Some officers did it. Others apparently knew about it and it appears they did nothing or at least not enough to stop it or to report it," Ms James added.

The scandal follows the sacking in October of the commander of the nuclear missile force who had engaged in embarrassing behaviour, including drunkenness, while leading a US delegation to a nuclear exercise in Russia.

The alleged cheating was discovered during a separate probe of drug possession by 11 officers at several air force bases.

Two of the suspects in the drug investigation are in the nuclear force and are also alleged to have participated in the cheating ring.

Officials insisted the safety of the nuclear arsenal was not compromised.

"This was a failure of some of our airmen. It was not a failure of the nuclear mission," Ms James said.

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