• daannii
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    12 hours ago

    What I worry is he’s trying to nuke them but hegseth fired the people with the codes.

    I’m pretty sure there are fail-safes so that multiple top generals have to agree to a nuke. That way some crazy person can’t start Armageddon.

    Might take 2 weeks to get new key cards or whatever for new top generals. Or maybe 2 weeks to build a new nuke.

    (If I were an engineer on that I would intentionally make it not work,).

    Idk.

    But I think that he can’t currently nuke them. Because if he could. He would.

    • HubertManne@piefed.social
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      12 hours ago

      the way I understood it the president could do it but there is a person that carries it and knows the process and how to use the codes and such but if it goes through and passes a variety of verifications then a strike is called.

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        12 hours ago

        You sound more informed than me on the topic. I wasn’t really sure how it was set up, but thought there were some restrictions.