Could the US even launch a nuclear missile if it wanted to? Critics point to growing alarm

UK daily mail ^ | 20 December 2014

[bobby.223]

The WOPR?.....Well, okay as long is does not buy into that ‘put the X in the center square’ crap!

[The Sons of Liberty]

Most likely 0bama would order the missiles retargeted against targets in the US.

[OneWingedShark]

How about one large Marine Corps with a naval contingent?

Well… the Constitution explicitly allows for monies to be raised for an Army and for a Navy... no Marine Corps or Air Force there.

[GOPJ]

I’m praying that we’re wrong.

[CodeToad]

Every quarter we used to take a MM3 out of a silo, with its crew, load it with warheads used for testing (non-nuclear), and launch the suckers out of Vandenberg and into KMR. They never failed.

[RJS1950]

No, that was the day to day non-launch setting. The actual unlock codes, half of which were known only to one or the other launch crew member. Two crew members each dialed in their half when valid launch orders were received. Setting zeroes will do nothing. I was a missile launch officer, airborne missile launch officer and involved with nuclear command and control at various levels throughout my career.

By the way, the null setting for the code components was zeroes for many more than 20 years. Also, the split crypto code combinations are regularly changed.

[FredZarguna]

Yeah. Red should be blue and blue should be red. Parties of the left have always been blue until the 2000 election. Unfortunately, we’re stuck now with red = Republican, blue = Democrat.

[wally_bert]

Well there is that pen and phone option the wun says works....

[Sirius Lee]

The UFOs keep shutting them down.

[2001convSVT]

Thanks, great info to have.

[fieldmarshaldj]

That’s why it should be corrected at every turn.

Then again, with the GOP being what it is these days, the Democrats should be blood red and the GOP should be pinkish red. Only the Cruz wing is Conservative Blue.