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How Easily Could President Trump Order A Nuclear Attack
Metro ^ | November 8, 2016 | Rob Waugh

Posted on 11/09/2016 5:43:49 AM PST by Strategy

Anyone who's followed Donald J. Trump on Twitter will know that he has an explosive temper - which might be a bit of a worry when he commands the world's second-biggest nuclear arsenal.

But could he really unleash nuclear holocaust if he was a bit annoyed?

He genuinely could - so quickly, in fact, that devastation would reach the other side of the globe quicker than most of us could order a pizza to our doors.

If Donald Trump were to give the order to attack, no one can countermand it - the military will simply check the codes, and fire.

Officers may resign, but the attack would still go ahead.

(Excerpt) Read more at metro.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Russia
KEYWORDS: putin; russia; trump; trumpnatlsecurity
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To: Strategy

Everyone knows that the one who launches a nuke sets a whole kennel of ferocious dogs loose to chew the whole world. Only the Iranians and progressives want that scale of carnage.


61 posted on 11/09/2016 6:36:29 AM PST by lurk (TEat)
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To: a fool in paradise
I STILL find Britlibs who think that Reagan-Thatcher ARE going to come back from the grave and blow up the world.

No. God has reserved that for Himself

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up.
II Peter 3:10
62 posted on 11/09/2016 6:49:42 AM PST by righttackle44 (Leave the bodies-take scalps.)
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To: Strategy
Anyone who's followed Donald J. Trump on Twitter will know that he has an explosive temper

And Hitlery Clintoon is Mrs. Cool, Calm and Collected?

GIVE ME A BREAK!!!


63 posted on 11/09/2016 6:51:16 AM PST by ssaftler (Time for Washington to be servants of the people, not the other way around.)
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To: fruser1

LOL! Exactly. That’s the only “deal” the Iranians need to know.


64 posted on 11/09/2016 7:17:39 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hillary Clinton IS a felon.)
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To: Strategy

Id prefer a limited nuclear war to a true American Civil War.


65 posted on 11/09/2016 7:20:47 AM PST by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!)
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To: Strategy

President-Elect Trump knows that the odds on his Trump Towers surviving the response to him deciding to start a Nuclear War are about zero. So if anyone thinks he’s going to do something really stupid like that is either crazy or ignorant.


66 posted on 11/09/2016 7:30:38 AM PST by Degaston
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To: Toughluck_freeper

I got to imagine that the Secret Service personnel are high-fiving themselves now on just what happened. Clinton is notorious for being a difficult person for them to work with. And Trump has got to be fun for them. Last night it looked like Trump wanted to reach out and hug all the agents and publicly call them out by name to give them very public praise. He’d probably do it except its totally against protocol (due to how the Secret Service needs to do their job effectively) to do so publicly.


67 posted on 11/09/2016 7:37:51 AM PST by Degaston
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To: Strategy

Good Grief, these people on the left are utter MORONS.


68 posted on 11/09/2016 7:42:52 AM PST by A message
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To: Strategy
Remember in November, 2008 right after Obama was elected and we saw stories like this:

"How Easily Could President Obama Order A Nuclear Attack?"

Me neither.


69 posted on 11/09/2016 7:45:04 AM PST by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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70 posted on 11/09/2016 11:30:09 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Strategy

It begins. The crazy is going to come pour forth.

Get ready to hear about a homeless problem of absolutely massive proportions.

Can’t believe the article didn’t also say, “Women and children hardest hit.”


71 posted on 11/09/2016 11:31:44 AM PST by RinaseaofDs (Truth, in a time of universal deceit, is courage)
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To: Strategy

This article is as provocative as the ones constantly insisting the Russians are going to attack and there’ll be an attack by AQ or whatever on election eve.

Trump being crass and tough in his campaign talks don’t mean he will or would order to push the button in reality any more than Hillary, or W. or Reagan would have, unless under extreme circumstances, or if gone insane.

Both Trump personally and the U.S. have major global economic interests. No one wins a nuclear war, especially against another major nuclear armed country.

Am glad Hillary didn’t win, and Trump & his administration have 4 whole years to walk the talk. They have been given the opportunity to differentiate themselves from “the elite & establishment”. Judge by actions, not words (no excuses). That’s my motto.


72 posted on 11/09/2016 3:57:47 PM PST by odds
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