Dementia patients get angry when confronted about their dementia.
With normal dementia patients however - you can just take the keys away, before they hurt themselves or others.
Unfortunately, for everyone on earth, our national dementia patient has the nuclear football.
It isn’t as easy as it sounds. He can’t arbitrarily push a button and side step a number of people. There is a procedure and there are many things in the case.
If the president (who is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces) decides to order the use of nuclear weapons, they would be taken aside by the “carrier” and the briefcase would be opened. A command signal, or “watch” alert, would then be issued to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The president would then review the attack options with the secretary of defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and decide on a plan, which could range from a single cruise missile to multiple ICBM launches.
These are preset war plans developed under OPLAN 8010 (formerly the Single Integrated Operational Plan). Then, using Milstar, the aide, a military officer Lt. Colonel normally, would contact the National Military Command Center and NORAD (Wads) to determine the scope of the pre-emptive nuclear strike and prepare a second strike, following which Milstar/Advanced Extremely High Frequency or Boeing E-4Bs and TACAMOs would air the currently valid nuclear launch code to all operational nuclear delivery systems. Where a two-person verification procedure would be executed following this, the codes would be entered in a Permissive Action Link.
Before the order can be processed by the military, the president must be positively identified using a special code issued on a plastic card, nicknamed the “biscuit”. The United States has a two-man rule in place at nuclear launch facilities, and while only the president can order the release of nuclear weapons, the order must be verified by the secretary of defense to be an authentic order given by the president (there is a hierarchy of succession in the event that the president is killed in an attack).
This verification process deals solely with verifying that the order came from the actual president. The secretary of defense has no veto power and must comply with the president’s order. Once all the codes have been verified, the President “may direct the use of nuclear weapons through an execute order via the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the combatant commanders, and, ultimately, to the forces in the field exercising direct control of the weapons.” These orders are given and then re-verified for authenticity.
And that’s just to get them off the ground. There is a lot of time and people between Biden and Strake.
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