To: 2ndDivisionVet
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!")
To: Strac6
“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)
To: Strac6
“Sorry, but entire article is BS. POTUS cannot launch on his own. SECDEF, SECSTATE, AG or others at that level must “confirm” order.”
Exactly!! Thus the “National Command Authority” is the source of nuclear release orders to the force, not from the President alone.
63 posted on
08/13/2017 1:51:41 PM PDT by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
To: Strac6
That’s what I thought. Thanks.
85 posted on
08/13/2017 2:57:21 PM PDT by
MarMema
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