“The president does have total control, and people in the chain of command are constantly vetted for their readiness to follow his orders.”
Nope. The president entering codes into his little box does not launch nukes. You’ve watched to many movies and, as usual on FR, you’re talking out your ass.
You’re really not fit to be here with your hatred of the south.
The president entering codes sends orders. The people to whom the orders are sent are vetted to be the kind of person who would follow those orders. If they don’t follow orders in an exercise, they are removed from that position, and replaced with someone who will follow orders.
If I was like you, I could say that you are not fit to be here with your hatred of the country, but I think you do love much about the country. I don’t hate the south, though I think the past insurrection launched by the slave power in the distant past was incorrect, not justified, and illegal.
If you can’t win an election, you can’t win a war. Losing an election has bad consequences. Losing a war has worse consequences. Mass murder in an attempt to win an unjustified insurrection is perhaps the worst result possible as it invites, and partially justifies mass murder by the authority that suppresses the insurrection.
The US didn’t nuke China or Korea during the Korean War. It didn’t nuke Vietnam either. It didn’t nuke Iraq or Afghanistan. But these yahoo ninnies want me to believe FedGov™ would nuke Dallas? LOL