I think it's perfectly healthy to be afraid of nuclear weapons...
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| Author: | klagldsf [ November 30th, 2013, 6:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Do you want to know what the code was for nuclear launch? |
Apparently for 20 years it was eight zeros. No kidding: http://gizmodo.com/for-20-years-the-nuc ... 1473483587 |
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| Author: | Novice [ November 30th, 2013, 8:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Do you want to know what the code was for nuclear launch |
Quite frightening, when thining about it, all it took to push the human civilazation back to the stone age, was for one dimwit to push 8 zeroes... |
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| Author: | TimothyC [ November 30th, 2013, 8:32 pm ] | |
| Post subject: | Re: Do you want to know what the code was for nuclear launch | |
Quite frightening, when thining about it, all it took to push the human civilazation back to the stone age, was for one dimwit to push 8 zeroes...
This is silly (not the PAL code, the terror that people have when talking about nuclear issues).The logic behind the situation was that SAC/The Silent Service was trained not to do anything stupid, and that the existing structures had worked for over a decade when Strange decided he didn't like the authority that Powers had. Yet another reason to curse Strange. Plus, it wouldn't be stone age, it would at worst be something like high middle ages - only with an added base of SCIENCE. The downside would be that when it was time to leave the middle ages, the easy energy sources wouldn't be there. |
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| Author: | Colosseum [ November 30th, 2013, 9:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Do you want to know what the code was for nuclear launch |
I think it's perfectly healthy to be afraid of nuclear weapons...
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| Author: | TimothyC [ November 30th, 2013, 10:08 pm ] | |
| Post subject: | Re: Do you want to know what the code was for nuclear launch | |
I think it's perfectly healthy to be afraid of nuclear weapons...
*Shrugs*Respectful of what nuclear weapons can do? Yes. Concerned about such issues as proliferation? Yes. Fearful? No. I think the best way to avoid being fearful is to educate yourself on the issues in question, as a lot of the people I've discussed nuclear issues with in person who turned out to be fearful were those who had not studied the issues at all. It could be argued that there is even a safe/reasonable level of fear regarding nuclear weapons and issues, but often the levels in the general public exceed what I think is healthy. I would like to retract my original statement about it being stupid, and replace with the softer "silly" (for those that didn't see the original version of my reply above, I've made the edit I just described). |
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| Author: | Novice [ November 30th, 2013, 10:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Do you want to know what the code was for nuclear launch |
The fear I expressed was not the nuclear weapons as such, but the ease in which a total nuclear war could be started (push 8 zeros and there you go...) |
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| Author: | shippy2013 [ November 30th, 2013, 10:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Do you want to know what the code was for nuclear launch |
Although the world came close to nuclear war on a number of occasions I don't believe all out nuclear war would ever happen as such an act by one nation would provoke a similar response and there fore no winner..... The idea of some numptie typing in 8 zeros and launching all out nuclear armaggeddon is laughable. I think the biggest fear is that a terrorist organization or a rogue state getting hold of one or two devices and detonating them in a large civilian area without warning.... |
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| Author: | Bombhead [ November 30th, 2013, 10:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Do you want to know what the code was for nuclear launch |
Blimey 8 zeros and poor old Ronald Reagan had dementia. 
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| Author: | CraigH [ November 30th, 2013, 11:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Do you want to know what the code was for nuclear launch |
Dumb as the Federal Govt. seems at times**, something tells me that Regan's handlers probably had some sort of fail safe for those moments. **OK, Congress appears locked in perpetual dumbness these days. CraigH |
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| Author: | TimothyC [ December 1st, 2013, 3:07 am ] | ||
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Blimey 8 zeros and poor old Ronald Reagan had dementia.
The fear I expressed was not the nuclear weapons as such, but the ease in which a total nuclear war could be started (push 8 zeros and there you go...)
So it's fear that something might happen, when for over a decade prior (that is to say, the period between 1952 and 1962) the lack of a false security system didn't cause any problems? That's an odd thing to be fearful of.
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