08-28-2019, 01:32 AM
Blankity Blank wrote:
[quote=Speedy]
Nothing will happen with the 25th as long as Pres. Trump can use the nuke codes. He could simply destroy most life on earth.
Here’s how that would (not) work. CNN
“"The President by himself cannot press a button and cause missiles to fly. He can only give an authenticated order which others would follow and then missiles would fly," Dr. Peter Feaver, a professor of public policy and political science at Duke University, told congressional lawmakers last year.
"The system is not a button that the President can accidentally lean on against the desk and immediately cause missiles to fly as some people in the public, I think, fear it would be," Feaver testified.
He added that the decision to launch a strike requires the President to work with military aides possessing the materials he needs to order an attack, as well as personnel at all levels, from top commanders all the way down to service members working in the missile silos.”
“... Much of the nuclear launch process is classified but [retired Air Force General Robert] Kehler, who previously served as the commander of US Strategic Command under President Barack Obama, explained that there are layers of safeguards within the current system designed to ensure any order is both legal and proportionally appropriate.
"This is a system controlled by human beings ... nothing happens automatically," he said, adding that the US military does not blindly follow orders and a presidential order to employ nuclear weapons must be legal.”
So hopefully that means the movie WarGames as well as SkyNet from The Terminator are not a thing.