When Russia perfect its hypersonic missiles, we won’t have enough time to respond. It will take 5 minutes to wake Biden up. Another ten minutes to convince him of the problem, and . . . too late. When Russia attacks, there won’t be a response.
—”When Russia attacks, there won’t be a response.”
“General “Buck” Turgidson: “Plan R is an emergency war plan in which a lower echelon commander may order nuclear retaliation after a sneak attack if the normal chain of command is disrupted. You approved it, sir. You must remember. Surely you must recall, sir, when Senator Buford made that big hassle about our deterrent lacking credibility. The idea was for plan R to be a sort of retaliatory safeguard.”