@Nzall Yeah and I would guess when the football is used its not 'you press the button and that launches the nukes'. Its more 'give the order to launch the nukes'
@Fredy31 According to the Wikipedia article: There are four things in the Football. The Black Book containing the retaliatory options, a book listing classified site locations, a manila folder with eight or ten pages stapled together giving a description of procedures for the Emergency Broadcast System, and a three-by-five-inch [7.5 × 13 cm] card with authentication codes. There's also communications equipment for sending the strike signal
That was from 1980 btw
So the president may only launch nuclear strikes against predetermined targets as retaliation in order to be lawful. These lawful targets are determined by the military and are Top Secret. However, declassified parts of OPLAN 8010 attained through FOIA requests have shown that these include targets in Russia and China, as well as 3 other areas of conflict (which I assume are North Korea, Iran and possibly Cuba)
@Nzall Yeah, but as I said, its not when he pushes the button on the football it automatically launches. What he does is call a soldier somewhere to fire.
Though because of over 40 years of pro-war rhetoric and rules finetuning, there is A LOT of redundancy to avoid the risk that a conscientious objector in the command chain successfully stops a presidential nuclear strike.
Yeah I would guess there is not 10 people between the president and launching it. I would guess its something like President > Ministry of defense > a high ranking soldier that is the one actually pushing the button
Yeah that was to be expected. Every step after the president has multiple people in it so you can't have a 1 person blocking it at some point because they dont agree
The entire system is designed around allowing authorized leadership, who have traditionally been vetted intensely, to launch nuclear strikes while not allowing the chance that a foreign agent (likely Russia or China) infiltrates the military and launches a rogue strike
Apparently this weekend there will be a protest in Washington protesting ... The criminal charges laid against the January 6th insurrectionists npr.org/2021/09/16/1037508166/…
Update to the Nicki Minaj story: Fox news asked one of their guests live on air if he's going to shove marbles up his ass because Minaj tweeted about that
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