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Exclusive: Inside the base that would oversee a US nuclear strike
CNN ^ | March 27, 2018 | CNN

Posted on 03/27/2018 1:04:02 PM PDT by US Navy Vet

Offutt Airbase, Nebraska (CNN)If the unthinkable happens and a nuclear exchange between the US and North Korea or Russia happens, President Donald Trump will rely on a secure underground facility at a base in the middle of the United States to carry out his orders. And four-star Air Force Gen. John Hyten, the commander of US Strategic Command, would be at the center of it all. "Our strategic responses are always ready to respond and everybody should know that," Hyten told CNN in an interview inside the highly secured 'Battle Deck' where he would oversee a nuclear response if the US is attacked or if Trump decides to launch a pre-emptive strike. "That they are ready this minute -- under the ground, under the sea, in the air, we are ready to respond, and the adversaries of the world -- including Kim Jong Un -- have to know that."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; US: Nebraska
KEYWORDS: dod; usstrategiccommand
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I work here. Watch the video ,just let it run past the irritating Ads.
1 posted on 03/27/2018 1:04:02 PM PDT by US Navy Vet
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Funny how we had none of these types of stories when obama was busy surrendering, ceding the world to our adversaries, and leading from behind.


2 posted on 03/27/2018 1:06:00 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: US Navy Vet

A tough job that somebody has to do. Glad that people are watching out for Americans and America. Thank you.


3 posted on 03/27/2018 1:06:09 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: US Navy Vet

Well thanks for announcing its location. If and when that unspeakable day comes, look for a preemptive strike that will obliterate the mountain.


4 posted on 03/27/2018 1:08:44 PM PDT by tjd1454 (L))
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To: tjd1454

CNN could care less.


5 posted on 03/27/2018 1:10:48 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: dhs12345

CNN making it look like DJT will use it tomorrow.


6 posted on 03/27/2018 1:13:13 PM PDT by mplc51
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To: US Navy Vet

Another hit piece upon America from the Communist News Network.


7 posted on 03/27/2018 1:13:55 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
The story line repeatedly says if President Trump "orders a nuclear strike", like it is unique to him.

As an old SAC weenie (since 1971) I can assure that any president giving the order would initiate the same nuclear response.

8 posted on 03/27/2018 1:14:49 PM PDT by pfflier
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The world has known about SAC headquarters in Offutt since the 1950’s and there is no mountain there.


9 posted on 03/27/2018 1:16:43 PM PDT by pfflier
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Well duh! All that will remain is a hundred square miles of radioactive dust.


10 posted on 03/27/2018 1:22:54 PM PDT by tjd1454 (L))
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Like the way NORAD did it’s job on 911?


11 posted on 03/27/2018 1:23:13 PM PDT by proust ("The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.")
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To: pfflier

Obama wouldn’t have ordered a strike...he would have waved a white flag.


12 posted on 03/27/2018 1:23:18 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: US Navy Vet

Star-gate Command Earth base


13 posted on 03/27/2018 1:23:43 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country)
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You SIR are a DUMBASS!


14 posted on 03/27/2018 1:28:24 PM PDT by US Navy Vet (Trump Train!!!)
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Lol. Idiots. Glad that they are not king of the world even though they think that they are.
15 posted on 03/27/2018 1:29:37 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: US Navy Vet

White Privileged Flyover Country full of crazy gun owners.

Hogg needs to show up in Omaha to give a revolutionary speech.


16 posted on 03/27/2018 1:32:15 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Alex Jones isnÂ’t quite the wing nut now, all things considered.)
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To: US Navy Vet

In 2011 I saw a U.S. Navy Boeing 707 at North Island Naval Air Station 100th anniversary air show. That plane was the command center to direct the ballistic missile submarines after the U.S. has been attacked. The crew members were there answering questions. That 707 reminded me of the doomsday machine in Dr. Strangelove.


17 posted on 03/27/2018 1:35:31 PM PDT by forgotten man
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This is a nuclear strike secure location, per their website, and volumes of data during construction. And was tested with a false alert during the Jimmy Carter Administration.


18 posted on 03/27/2018 1:35:39 PM PDT by Rustybucket
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The world has known about SAC headquarters in Offutt since the 1950’s and there is no mountain there.”””””””””””””””

Yup. Not too many mountain ranges in the eastern Nebraska area.


19 posted on 03/27/2018 1:35:51 PM PDT by shelterguy (Bigdeal)
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To: US Navy Vet

Highly doubtful

Strategic control since the cold war, and in particular since precision tactical nuclear strike capabilities, would require somewhat hierarchical but redundant, fail-safe, partially mobile, and covert organization.


20 posted on 03/27/2018 1:39:02 PM PDT by z3n
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