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If the congress has authority to declare war why not just send the codes to
congress
When I said nuke the Chinese, I meant put the takeout in the microwave!
Wouldn’t it be easier to appoint two people instead of one and develop a
system through which the weapons cannot be fired without the authority of
both of them. This would effectively prevent the “crazy general scenario”
from occurring.
I still find it hard to believe that cooler heads prevailed and nuclear war
was averted. I guess humanity isn’t as mindless or cruel as it seems
sometimes.
I was offended until he said the president could also be a woman at the
end. How about we wait until old thunder thighs Clinton gets into office
before we PC up the president?
How about AI? I would analyse the global scenario and would decide if
should kill us or not… Terminator X
So is this the fast food nation guy?
How do WE retaliate?? WE?????! , I dont know where this WE crap is coming
from if the president (lord/master) is the only one who can make the
decision…
Anyway, how would retaliation make the world better? Two wrongs dont make a
right!!
I hope these weapons are obsolete, and we’ve learned to aim for the
offending leadership, rather than the innocent.
We don’t, USE nuclear weapons (against each other).
CBS 60 minutes, I think, did a pretty good story about this.
Why not give that power to congress. It’s really not necessary to retaliate
immediately to nuclear threat or attack. Congress would need at least a
year to decide so there would be inherent cool off period. But to carry
risk like that then Iran really needs nuclear weapons so they can
retaliate.
what if the president sleepwalks and launches nukes in sleep?
The idea that we could/should ‘trust’ our upper levels of government has
dissolved to some degree, in watching that group dealing with criminal use
of torture.
You give the US military credit for professionalism and discipline for not
randomly detonating a nuclear weapon for the fun of it?
I might aswell give you credit for your professionalism and discipline in
consistently breathing every day.
BIG THINK BIG THOUGHTS YO
This is what happens when American’s have nukes
“September 18, 1980 – At about 6:30 p.m., an airman conducting maintenance
on a USAF Titan-II missile at Little Rock Air Force Base’s Launch Complex
374-7 in Southside (Van Buren County), just north of Damascus, Arkansas,
dropped a socket from a socket wrench, which fell about 80 feet (24 m)
before hitting and piercing the skin on the rocket’s first-stage fuel tank,
causing it to leak. The area was evacuated. At about 3:00 a.m., on
September 19, 1980, the hypergolic fuel exploded. The W53 warhead landed
about 100 feet (30 m) from the launch complex’s entry gate; its safety
features operated correctly and prevented any loss of radioactive material.
An Air Force airman was killed and the launch complex was destroyed.”
You can say the same for any country not just USA.
Has this man ever heard of deterrence?
Why would you have to give military officers “great credit” for having
never launched nuclear weapons? They haven’t had any reason to use such
weapons since WWII ended. Such weaponry is an absolute last resort to stop
unchecked destruction and attempts at domination.
“I give the military great credit for never having used nuclear weapons
without authorization.” WOW, you must really have very low expectations of
the military.
I don’t understand this dude’s statement of “junior officer”. There are
literally 1,000+ generals and admirals in the military stationed worldwide
with 20+ years of experience individually; none of them are junior. When
you say “junior officers” it is actually referring to officers O1(2LT/ENS)
through O4(MAJ/LCDR).
When it comes to responsibility, there are thousands of “kids” (but they
are also adults) in the military with just a high school degree performing
actions and executing responsibilities that directly impact national
security and foreign relations everyday. A significant portion of the
civilian population will never experience equivalent grave responsibility
in their lifetimes. Most service members honorably perform their duties but
there are some bad eggs once in a while.
What is actually more amazing is that there has been no successful coup
d’état from the military against the elected Federal civilian government.
Not bad for a military superpower. The Roman Emperor got deposed by his
Praetorian Guard. The Soviet Union and China keep their military in-check
with political commissars.
Give the launch codes to Consuela the cleaning lady…
The error he makes is in envisioning a line of delegation that goes DOWN
the chain of command. From the White House to the Pentagon and/or the
military, there are enough generals, admirals, and commandants that…well,
if it ever makes it down to junior officers, then it’s probably too late
for a nuclear strike to matter. Moreover, the thing that would keep some
rogue general from using nukes independently is the fact that our own
detection systems would enable the president (or some OTHER general) to
identify and disarm said nukes. Moreover, the greatest deterrent to misuse
of military nukes is the knowledge that such a launch would virtually
assure counter-attack(s) that would result in our own annihilation.
US, India, Russia, China will probably never start a nuclear attack. Their
rulers are just about sane enough. Pakistan, Iran, North Korea and so on
are dangerous though, too affected by religion/totalitarianism, if they
actually get the resources to start a nuclear war we should be scared.
So does this mean because your younger you are more likely to be crazy and
kill people compared to older people. Furthermore we trust young doctors
who just graduated with people’s lives does this mean they will kill
people? To do these types of jobs you have to have a certain type of
mentality and that people who appoint you that responsibility are also well
trained people with experience and they know what they are doing.