Comment by UncleEntity
5 months ago
One could hope...
Even at the height of the Cold War there was always a human between <leader presses button> and <nukes go aflyin'>.
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...which has me wondering if a president even has the constitutional authority to destroy the entire planet and if one could interpret their command as a 'lawful order'. Makes one think.
On the topic of fail-deadly nukes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand