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Re: Non-"Leading Brand"s here?
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Wed, 4 Nov 1998 17:00:08 GMT
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Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote
> Once upon a time, "Jesse Long" <LongJR97@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > rest. Consider that the whole concept of the "football" was that the
> > president could initiate launches from anywhere, and you begin to wonder if
> > local has anything to do with it at all.
Was it just "war games" or didn't they have a sub 50% launch rate from
manned sites in trials? Like, half the time the boys would choose not to
set the thing off? So there was some incentive to have remote firing
capabilities?
> But any discussion
> of making it easier to launch nukes gives me the willies.
Ditto. Although I do think launching them into space would be a good idea
- orion ships are cool.
Moz
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| Well the actual figures aren't available but I'd guess somewhere to 80% 90% would launch. I mean these guys had several backups in case one did decide to cop out right? Also if it's not authorized to launch fairly quickly isn't there a call to the (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| Moz (Chris Moseley) wrote in message ... (...) Just War Games, AFAIK. Although I do know that they ran test firings a lot to make sure that people would actually turn the keys when they needed to. Jesse ___...___ Jesse The Jolly Jingoist Looking for (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I'm not sure if this makes me feel better or worse about America's nuclear capabilities. Technically, it sounds 'cool', assuming it would actually work right under field conditions. But any discussion of making it easier to launch nukes gives (...) (26 years ago, 3-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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