BTW, does anyone know if it's true that the POTUS can give a launch order for nuclear missiles just by hitting a switch?
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
If so, and Trump did it, are there still humans in the chain of command who could stop the process?
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last I checked, actual people have to fire the actual nukes. and they've balked at least once, in, like, the '70s.
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Replying to @SaddestRobots @BootlegGirl
Unfortunately both of the stories of people balking and not launching nukes are Soviets, not Americans
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And one of them got rewarded by getting fired and blackballed and living in disgrace until his story got dug up post-USSR
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It's like this universal rule bosses fundamentally dislike anyone known for not taking orders no matter how good your reason is
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The long list of US whistleblowers, including celebrated ones, who became totally unhirable afterwards
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