Would Obama use a nuke in retaliation?

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83. Actually you are very incorrect

The SSBN Captain and other officers have minimal technical knowledge of the strategic weapons systems and lack the ability to even launch them on their own. Three different ratings have the knowledge and technical skills and ability to launch with or without the CO’s or Officers involvement. The enlisted have the knowledge and ability to bypass all the key’s and other safety’s to launch if they so desired and yes the enlisted not the officers have the ability to retarget the missiles if they so choose. If the right people decided to do an independent launch they could and nobody could stop them. The launch orders/codes are a joke any way, but it does create a procedure to make killing millions legal so to speak.

The first day of Strategic Weapons Systems training for CO’s , XO’s, Weapons and Nav Officers they are told that they will not and cannot be trained on the technical aspects of the weapons system, they have to trust the enlisted on all technical aspects of the system, period. They are trained on their script they have to read during a launch and given enough technical knowledge on the system to be dangerous, nothing more. The CO, XO and other officers are trained by, you guessed it, mainly enlisted and yes I was one of their instructors in the school house for a few years.

As for the POTUS…well they too are just an actor playing a role. The POTUS cannot roll out of the rack, turn to the person with the football and on a whim decide to nuke someone, it does not work that way safe guards are in place to make sure that does not happen either.

The only real safe guard is the people involved and trusting the people from actually launching on a whim.

Oh yeah for the record, yes I would have launched if so ordered.

If you want to know more PM me.