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No One Should Have Sole Authority to Launch a Nuclear Attack
Scientific American ^ | The August 2017 Issue | The Editors

Posted on 08/13/2017 12:49:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: SecondAmendment

Scientific American starting heading toward irrelevancy soon after the NSF recognized Political Science as a “science”. And if you don’t believe that the National Science Foundation was that stupid, here is the evidence!

http://www.apsanet.org/advocacy/nsf


41 posted on 08/13/2017 1:13:57 PM PDT by Reily
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yeah, when you have less than 10 minutes to respond to a nuclear attack Scientific American writers think that the quickest way to respond is via a committee. Damn but so many people are stupid.


42 posted on 08/13/2017 1:20:16 PM PDT by WMarshal (President Trump, a president keeping his promises to the American people. It feels like winning.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

SA lies.


43 posted on 08/13/2017 1:21:51 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Who are you to exclude Senator McCain from the chain of command and what did you do with his strawberries?


44 posted on 08/13/2017 1:23:27 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (The Whig Party died when it fled the great fight of its century. Ditto for the Republicans now.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They mean that TRUMP should not have the power. If ever this country has a democrat president, they will not be thinking these thoughts.


45 posted on 08/13/2017 1:24:22 PM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Any one MIRV’d ICBM can take out more than 500km by 100km stretch of earth. 1.2Mt or even 170Kt warheads * 10 or 12 equals a massive, massive, massive amount of total destruction. It’s quite impressive and immune to any possible defense strategy. 18 minutes from launch, and...mega-boom!! And the 6,800 and 4,200 (thereabouts) stockpiles of the USA and Russia are really quite capable of blowing things to hell all over the planet. I love the physics of nukes. Claus Fuchs was such an asshole in the same league as Bill Clinton.


46 posted on 08/13/2017 1:26:27 PM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Right. No nuke launches without Congressional hearings, a joint session, and a formal declaration of war.


47 posted on 08/13/2017 1:28:06 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.”

George Orwell

Dear Editors of ‘Scientific America’, please appoint a committee to parse that statement, submit their work for peer review and finally call 911 when a dozen MS-13, armed with machetes, are kicking down your door.

You obviously need a bit of empirical data in order to understand the world!


48 posted on 08/13/2017 1:29:29 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

lol Mitch and Ryan can’t do anything in 7 YEARS..... 7 minutes would be asking far too much of them!


49 posted on 08/13/2017 1:29:43 PM PDT by Enchante (Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
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To: Political Junkie Too

“...because we need a committee to approve a counter-strike when inbounds are on the way.”

And, of course, don’t forget, any decisions the committee makes has to be approved by committee lawyers.


50 posted on 08/13/2017 1:30:16 PM PDT by JewishRighter
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I read years ago about a guy who inquired at Scientific American why they never had had an article on the Shroud of Turin. The editors wrote to him that, “It is our policy that the Shroud of Turin does not exist.”


51 posted on 08/13/2017 1:30:46 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama launched several. Seth wars to overthrow “quiet” regimes to put his viciously anti-American Islamic terrorist gang bff’s into power. Did this supposedly scientific magazine editorialize against that aggressive immoral behaviour by the Islamizazi in chief?


52 posted on 08/13/2017 1:31:10 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: KarlInOhio
You are absolutely right. My bad for over looking The Maverick.


53 posted on 08/13/2017 1:33:04 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You have to wonder what this guy thinks would happen when we came under a nuclear attack. Would he want a 57 man committee to figure out what to do.

Why heck, three days later we’d have made up our mind.

2 days, 22 hours, and 30 minutes too late...


54 posted on 08/13/2017 1:33:11 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Fourth estate? Ha! Our media has become the KCOTUS, the Kangaroo Court of the United States.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey FatBoy...here’s your target:

Scientific American Magazine
75 Varick St
New York, New York 10013


55 posted on 08/13/2017 1:33:40 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW! Boycott Mex/Can, nba NFL PepsiCO Kellogg'sB)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is all so fun. In 1981, as an 11 year old science-bent kid, I studied and feared nuclear destruction. Now the leftist media is just going silly-crazy on this. It most likely won’t happen, but if it does, it will be Pakistan, Iran, or, on a smaller scale, North Korea that starts the bombing. Mutually Assured Destrucyon is real and acknowledged among the established nuclear ICBM holders. The rogue nations have no idea what they are playing with.


56 posted on 08/13/2017 1:35:05 PM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Maybe the guy is correct. Perhaps the President should ask the Congress for approval to launch. Congress can form a committee to discuss the launch and make it’s recommendations (and other options) to Congress. After debate, the two houses can then vote. If they speed up the process, the President should have approval within months! </sarc>

The left always claim how ‘scary’ and ‘dangerous’ Republican Presidents are. The interesting thing is, the one President to actually spark off a nuke, twice, was a Dhimmicrat and the President who brought North America within a hair’s breath of a nuclear war with the USSR, was a Dhimmicrat. Who was President when the US bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade?

And the Dhimmi’s hearts are filled with terror than a Pubbie President is going to bring the US into a nuclear war? Yes, liberalism IS a mental disease!


57 posted on 08/13/2017 1:35:43 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Funny that the other example they give besides Trump is Ronald Reagan...

...didn’t we have a few other presidents along the way?


58 posted on 08/13/2017 1:40:11 PM PDT by Magnatron
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Crazy B.S.
There have been at least three nuclear war near misses that were rightly defused by sound minds in charge. Here is one - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_Incident.
There were also others brought on by Norway, the USA, and USSR through lack of communication and military technology misinterpretations of data.


59 posted on 08/13/2017 1:41:34 PM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Did they write thinking Kim would read it?


60 posted on 08/13/2017 1:42:12 PM PDT by raybbr (That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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