Posted on Jan 5, 2018
How do You Launch a Nuclear Missile?, The Inquiry - BBC World Service
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How do You Launch a Nuclear Missile?, The Inquiry - BBC World Service
Posted from bbc.co.uk
Nuclear
Office of the President (POTUS)
White House
Donald Trump
Posted 7 y ago
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Speaking as a nuclear sub sailor, "the football," "codes," etc, are all part 1 of many, many parts. The president (or disgruntled security advisor)(quick - name the movie...) can't just get out of bed, go into a closet, open a box and send megatons worth of hotness into space. *IF* it was truly that easy, we'd have had a live accident or two by now.
While Trump's tweetaholic ramblings may or may not be dangerous, we the nation aren't in danger of him just randomly launching stuff. Its a nice pipe dream, but it really isn't that simple. Now...its possible that things have changed since I last served. But... I doubt it...
While Trump's tweetaholic ramblings may or may not be dangerous, we the nation aren't in danger of him just randomly launching stuff. Its a nice pipe dream, but it really isn't that simple. Now...its possible that things have changed since I last served. But... I doubt it...
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PO3 Donald Murphy
As a side bar, keep in mind also that MAD involves numbers. While these numbers are intended to scare an enemy, they are actually redundancy. In other words, out of 24 missiles on a sub, how many may fail? So just launching "one nuke" is not really smart/prudent. Along those lines also, most nuke missiles that the POTUS can launch are sub missiles (18 warheads each) or USAF birds (multiple warheads as well). So if the president was to launch "one" Navy Trident, "18" cities are going to glow.
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The whole "Button" uproar makes me laugh. Folks watch too much TV and movies! LOL
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
GENESIS - Land of Confusion (1986)
This came off a VHS tape of mine. COPYRIGHT Virgin Vision Australia (Virgin Records LTD1988) A later version of this video can be found at http://www.youtube...
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