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> I don’t know if it’s (still) in service, but the USA had a rocket that would fly over the rocket fields and send the launch codes and fire the icbms. The fear
by siquick 2y ago
> I don’t know if it’s (still) in service, but the USA had a rocket that would fly over the rocket fields and send the launch codes and fire the icbms. The fear was, that the soldiers were incapacitated and could not fire them itself. The backup.
Truly terrifying as a citizen of a non-nuclear country that this is (or was) in place, and that a handful of countries (presuming they all have this capability) is willing to obliterate everyone else because they took it too far.
- defrost 2y ago> Truly terrifying as a citizen of a non-nuclear country I flicked back a page of your comments and saw " .. here in Sydney." I'm in Australia like, I presume, yourself. The same country that has (along with multiple other installations) the Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Communication_Station_Harold_E._Holt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Communication_Station_Ha... which has always been a prime target in any first strike scenario .. given its primary function is communications with roving nuclear ballistic missile launch submarines. Like it or not Australia's been part of the game since an Australian scientist first explained to the Americans how to build an atomic weapon and further convinced them that it was both feasible and essential.
- fragmede 2y agoTIL about Sir Mark Oliphant!