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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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Remember these articles during the Obama and Clinton administrations?
1 posted on 08/13/2017 12:49:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Tell it to the NORK Young Un and then get back with us.


2 posted on 08/13/2017 12:51:00 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Good morning FR! Is Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg still breathing?)
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I remember Pickles was the one demanding how launch commands had to be obeyed and blabbing about response time.


3 posted on 08/13/2017 12:51:38 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They were daily, correct?


4 posted on 08/13/2017 12:51:48 PM PDT by EEGator
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No. I had given up on SA by the end of the Reagan Administration.


5 posted on 08/13/2017 12:52:46 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As if Scientific American has the ability to prevent the porcine dictator in North Korea from launching his.

Ludicrous concept.


6 posted on 08/13/2017 12:53:15 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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...because we need a committee to approve a counter-strike when inbounds are on the way.

-PJ

7 posted on 08/13/2017 12:53:50 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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🚀. Or Kim Jong dung. And, he don't care.
8 posted on 08/13/2017 12:54:05 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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Once again scientists show they are not very smart. They will be collecting data as Congress is debating a proportionate response to a missile attack.


9 posted on 08/13/2017 12:54:34 PM PDT by wizwor
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Editors of, "Scientific American"
10 posted on 08/13/2017 12:55:06 PM PDT by BigEdLB (To Dimwitocrats: We won. You lost. Get used to it.)
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“Scientific American” is neither ...


11 posted on 08/13/2017 12:55:38 PM PDT by SecondAmendment (Restoring our Republic at 9.8357x10^8 FPS)
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I agree but only if I am the second person.


12 posted on 08/13/2017 12:56:36 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The UK has no death penalty, unless you are an 11 month old infant with no arrest history)
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Launching should not be a vote by a committee decision.


13 posted on 08/13/2017 12:57:25 PM PDT by SkyDancer (You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.)
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Debate? No one will debate if Kimmie nukes DC. Just N Korea will be visible at night from the satellite.


14 posted on 08/13/2017 12:57:42 PM PDT by BigEdLB (To Dimwitocrats: We won. You lost. Get used to it.)
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In just five minutes an American president insane, loonytoons NORK dicatator could put all of humanity in jeopardy.

Added some truth to this fiasco. Scientific American is nothing but a liberal rag. It has really gone downhill since I subscribed to it back in the 60s and 70s.

15 posted on 08/13/2017 12:58:57 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Good morning FR! Is Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg still breathing?)
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Sorry, but entire article is BS. POTUS cannot launch on his own. SECDEF, SECSTATE, AG or others at that level must "confirm" order.


16 posted on 08/13/2017 12:58:58 PM PDT by Strac6 ("Mrs. Strac, Pilatus, and Sig Sauer: All the fun things in my life are Swiss!")
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Nope...but I remember them in the 1980s. Liberals project their own traits on their opposition.

Also, the silence during Barry’s Lybia excursion was deafening, compared to the calls for Bush to have congressional authorization in Iraq...a delay that likely enabled the smuggling of wmd out of the country.


17 posted on 08/13/2017 12:59:47 PM PDT by lacrew
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“In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled No One Should Have Sole Authority to Launch a Nuclear Attack, 2ndDivisionVet wrote:
Remember these articles during the Obama and Clinton administrations?”

My immediate thought as well.

SciAm has gone downhill fast.


18 posted on 08/13/2017 12:59:50 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Let the US Senate vote on it. LOL!


19 posted on 08/13/2017 1:01:02 PM PDT by pleasenotcalifornia
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“Sorry, but entire article is BS. POTUS cannot launch on his own. SECDEF, SECSTATE, AG or others at that level must “confirm” order.”

Yeah, that’s the other thing. Their premise is wrong.


20 posted on 08/13/2017 1:01:03 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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