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Two nuclear footballs.
On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 07:57:38 -0500, Retirednoguilt
wrote: On 1/25/2021 9:56 PM, wrote: On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 09:43:54 -0500, Retirednoguilt wrote: On 1/24/2021 4:36 PM, wrote: On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 11:32:32 -0500, Retirednoguilt wrote: On 1/23/2021 11:39 PM, micky wrote: Did you all know that for the first time on Jan 20th there were two nuclear footballs? The piece of luggage, probably, that contains the means and codes to contact whoever sends the nuclear missiles. In all previous presidential turnovers, they outgoing and incoming were in the same city. Except when Kennedy died they were in eye-sight of each other. And the luggage is just handed from one aid to another. But this time someone couldn't bear to watch so one of his military companions had a football and there was another at the Capitol At the moment of noon, the first one was disabled and the second one enabled. Souvenir footballs will be available next to the refreshment stand. Fail-safe and redundancy are the watchwords of nuclear safety, both for nuclear power and nuclear weapons. Does anyone realistically believe that there was only 1 "football"? What if the President was traveling and there was either a catastrophic mechanical failure causing a crash, or a rogue attack on the vehicle transporting him, badly damaging or even destroying the "football" that was with him? How would the vice-president or anyone else in the chain of command be able to provide continuity of control over our nuclear deterrent? Good point. I always thought that "football" was mostly theater anyway. It was just there to make people feel good. I am sure a guy who really knows the system could hot wire a nuke and the subs are autonomous anyway. As a former submarine qualified Naval Officer, let me assure you that neither statement you made in your last sentence is true. The nukes are carefully designed and constructed to preclude "hot wiring". And, the subs are NOT autonomous with respect to what's required to launch a nuclear-armed weapon. All amplifying details are highly classified, as they should be! That defies logic. You are saying if the communication link between the POTUS and an individual subs is compromised, we have no response? Sounds to me like, if that is true, all they have to do is shoot down one 747 and win the war. I know that is classified too. As I previously said, "fail-safe and redundancy". That applies to command communications channels as well as to permission to launch procedures. So that means there is always more than one football. I also bet there are some techs who could bypass the fail safe hardware. At a certain point there is a relay or logic line that says "go". |
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Two nuclear footballs.
On 1/27/2021 8:27 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 07:57:38 -0500, Retirednoguilt wrote: On 1/25/2021 9:56 PM, wrote: On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 09:43:54 -0500, Retirednoguilt wrote: On 1/24/2021 4:36 PM, wrote: On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 11:32:32 -0500, Retirednoguilt wrote: On 1/23/2021 11:39 PM, micky wrote: Did you all know that for the first time on Jan 20th there were two nuclear footballs? The piece of luggage, probably, that contains the means and codes to contact whoever sends the nuclear missiles. In all previous presidential turnovers, they outgoing and incoming were in the same city. Except when Kennedy died they were in eye-sight of each other. And the luggage is just handed from one aid to another. But this time someone couldn't bear to watch so one of his military companions had a football and there was another at the Capitol At the moment of noon, the first one was disabled and the second one enabled. Souvenir footballs will be available next to the refreshment stand. Fail-safe and redundancy are the watchwords of nuclear safety, both for nuclear power and nuclear weapons. Does anyone realistically believe that there was only 1 "football"? What if the President was traveling and there was either a catastrophic mechanical failure causing a crash, or a rogue attack on the vehicle transporting him, badly damaging or even destroying the "football" that was with him? How would the vice-president or anyone else in the chain of command be able to provide continuity of control over our nuclear deterrent? Good point. I always thought that "football" was mostly theater anyway. It was just there to make people feel good. I am sure a guy who really knows the system could hot wire a nuke and the subs are autonomous anyway. As a former submarine qualified Naval Officer, let me assure you that neither statement you made in your last sentence is true. The nukes are carefully designed and constructed to preclude "hot wiring". And, the subs are NOT autonomous with respect to what's required to launch a nuclear-armed weapon. All amplifying details are highly classified, as they should be! That defies logic. You are saying if the communication link between the POTUS and an individual subs is compromised, we have no response? Sounds to me like, if that is true, all they have to do is shoot down one 747 and win the war. I know that is classified too. As I previously said, "fail-safe and redundancy". That applies to command communications channels as well as to permission to launch procedures. So that means there is always more than one football. I also bet there are some techs who could bypass the fail safe hardware. At a certain point there is a relay or logic line that says "go". Actually, apparently not so. There are many electro-mechanical interlocks that fail-safe the weapon and its launch system if any tampering is attempted. I spoke to several weapons techs when I was on active duty and they all said that there was no way to compromise the weapon, either in terms of launch or in terms of achieving a critical detonation. |
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Two nuclear footballs.
wrote in message ... On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 07:57:38 -0500, Retirednoguilt wrote: On 1/25/2021 9:56 PM, wrote: On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 09:43:54 -0500, Retirednoguilt wrote: On 1/24/2021 4:36 PM, wrote: On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 11:32:32 -0500, Retirednoguilt wrote: On 1/23/2021 11:39 PM, micky wrote: Did you all know that for the first time on Jan 20th there were two nuclear footballs? The piece of luggage, probably, that contains the means and codes to contact whoever sends the nuclear missiles. In all previous presidential turnovers, they outgoing and incoming were in the same city. Except when Kennedy died they were in eye-sight of each other. And the luggage is just handed from one aid to another. But this time someone couldn't bear to watch so one of his military companions had a football and there was another at the Capitol At the moment of noon, the first one was disabled and the second one enabled. Souvenir footballs will be available next to the refreshment stand. Fail-safe and redundancy are the watchwords of nuclear safety, both for nuclear power and nuclear weapons. Does anyone realistically believe that there was only 1 "football"? What if the President was traveling and there was either a catastrophic mechanical failure causing a crash, or a rogue attack on the vehicle transporting him, badly damaging or even destroying the "football" that was with him? How would the vice-president or anyone else in the chain of command be able to provide continuity of control over our nuclear deterrent? Good point. I always thought that "football" was mostly theater anyway. It was just there to make people feel good. I am sure a guy who really knows the system could hot wire a nuke and the subs are autonomous anyway. As a former submarine qualified Naval Officer, let me assure you that neither statement you made in your last sentence is true. The nukes are carefully designed and constructed to preclude "hot wiring". And, the subs are NOT autonomous with respect to what's required to launch a nuclear-armed weapon. All amplifying details are highly classified, as they should be! That defies logic. You are saying if the communication link between the POTUS and an individual subs is compromised, we have no response? Sounds to me like, if that is true, all they have to do is shoot down one 747 and win the war. I know that is classified too. As I previously said, "fail-safe and redundancy". That applies to command communications channels as well as to permission to launch procedures. So that means there is always more than one football. There are in fact 3 of them. I also bet there are some techs who could bypass the fail safe hardware. At a certain point there is a relay or logic line that says "go". But getting access to that without it being noticed that you have done that is another matter. |
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Two nuclear footballs.
On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 09:58:20 -0500, Retirednoguilt
wrote: On 1/27/2021 8:27 PM, wrote: On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 07:57:38 -0500, Retirednoguilt wrote: On 1/25/2021 9:56 PM, wrote: On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 09:43:54 -0500, Retirednoguilt wrote: On 1/24/2021 4:36 PM, wrote: On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 11:32:32 -0500, Retirednoguilt wrote: On 1/23/2021 11:39 PM, micky wrote: Did you all know that for the first time on Jan 20th there were two nuclear footballs? The piece of luggage, probably, that contains the means and codes to contact whoever sends the nuclear missiles. In all previous presidential turnovers, they outgoing and incoming were in the same city. Except when Kennedy died they were in eye-sight of each other. And the luggage is just handed from one aid to another. But this time someone couldn't bear to watch so one of his military companions had a football and there was another at the Capitol At the moment of noon, the first one was disabled and the second one enabled. Souvenir footballs will be available next to the refreshment stand. Fail-safe and redundancy are the watchwords of nuclear safety, both for nuclear power and nuclear weapons. Does anyone realistically believe that there was only 1 "football"? What if the President was traveling and there was either a catastrophic mechanical failure causing a crash, or a rogue attack on the vehicle transporting him, badly damaging or even destroying the "football" that was with him? How would the vice-president or anyone else in the chain of command be able to provide continuity of control over our nuclear deterrent? Good point. I always thought that "football" was mostly theater anyway. It was just there to make people feel good. I am sure a guy who really knows the system could hot wire a nuke and the subs are autonomous anyway. As a former submarine qualified Naval Officer, let me assure you that neither statement you made in your last sentence is true. The nukes are carefully designed and constructed to preclude "hot wiring". And, the subs are NOT autonomous with respect to what's required to launch a nuclear-armed weapon. All amplifying details are highly classified, as they should be! That defies logic. You are saying if the communication link between the POTUS and an individual subs is compromised, we have no response? Sounds to me like, if that is true, all they have to do is shoot down one 747 and win the war. I know that is classified too. As I previously said, "fail-safe and redundancy". That applies to command communications channels as well as to permission to launch procedures. So that means there is always more than one football. I also bet there are some techs who could bypass the fail safe hardware. At a certain point there is a relay or logic line that says "go". Actually, apparently not so. There are many electro-mechanical interlocks that fail-safe the weapon and its launch system if any tampering is attempted. I spoke to several weapons techs when I was on active duty and they all said that there was no way to compromise the weapon, either in terms of launch or in terms of achieving a critical detonation. OK I will sleep a little better |
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Two nuclear footballs.
On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 11:18:27 +1100, "Rod Speed"
wrote: wrote in message .. . On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 07:57:38 -0500, Retirednoguilt wrote: On 1/25/2021 9:56 PM, wrote: On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 09:43:54 -0500, Retirednoguilt wrote: On 1/24/2021 4:36 PM, wrote: On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 11:32:32 -0500, Retirednoguilt wrote: On 1/23/2021 11:39 PM, micky wrote: Did you all know that for the first time on Jan 20th there were two nuclear footballs? The piece of luggage, probably, that contains the means and codes to contact whoever sends the nuclear missiles. In all previous presidential turnovers, they outgoing and incoming were in the same city. Except when Kennedy died they were in eye-sight of each other. And the luggage is just handed from one aid to another. But this time someone couldn't bear to watch so one of his military companions had a football and there was another at the Capitol At the moment of noon, the first one was disabled and the second one enabled. Souvenir footballs will be available next to the refreshment stand. Fail-safe and redundancy are the watchwords of nuclear safety, both for nuclear power and nuclear weapons. Does anyone realistically believe that there was only 1 "football"? What if the President was traveling and there was either a catastrophic mechanical failure causing a crash, or a rogue attack on the vehicle transporting him, badly damaging or even destroying the "football" that was with him? How would the vice-president or anyone else in the chain of command be able to provide continuity of control over our nuclear deterrent? Good point. I always thought that "football" was mostly theater anyway. It was just there to make people feel good. I am sure a guy who really knows the system could hot wire a nuke and the subs are autonomous anyway. As a former submarine qualified Naval Officer, let me assure you that neither statement you made in your last sentence is true. The nukes are carefully designed and constructed to preclude "hot wiring". And, the subs are NOT autonomous with respect to what's required to launch a nuclear-armed weapon. All amplifying details are highly classified, as they should be! That defies logic. You are saying if the communication link between the POTUS and an individual subs is compromised, we have no response? Sounds to me like, if that is true, all they have to do is shoot down one 747 and win the war. I know that is classified too. As I previously said, "fail-safe and redundancy". That applies to command communications channels as well as to permission to launch procedures. So that means there is always more than one football. There are in fact 3 of them. I also bet there are some techs who could bypass the fail safe hardware. At a certain point there is a relay or logic line that says "go". But getting access to that without it being noticed that you have done that is another matter. That is the actual basis of the fail safe system. Most things can't be done by a single person and there are enough people watching to stop any shenanigans |
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Two nuclear footballs.
wrote in message ... On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 11:18:27 +1100, "Rod Speed" wrote: wrote in message . .. On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 07:57:38 -0500, Retirednoguilt wrote: On 1/25/2021 9:56 PM, wrote: On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 09:43:54 -0500, Retirednoguilt wrote: On 1/24/2021 4:36 PM, wrote: On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 11:32:32 -0500, Retirednoguilt wrote: On 1/23/2021 11:39 PM, micky wrote: Did you all know that for the first time on Jan 20th there were two nuclear footballs? The piece of luggage, probably, that contains the means and codes to contact whoever sends the nuclear missiles. In all previous presidential turnovers, they outgoing and incoming were in the same city. Except when Kennedy died they were in eye-sight of each other. And the luggage is just handed from one aid to another. But this time someone couldn't bear to watch so one of his military companions had a football and there was another at the Capitol At the moment of noon, the first one was disabled and the second one enabled. Souvenir footballs will be available next to the refreshment stand. Fail-safe and redundancy are the watchwords of nuclear safety, both for nuclear power and nuclear weapons. Does anyone realistically believe that there was only 1 "football"? What if the President was traveling and there was either a catastrophic mechanical failure causing a crash, or a rogue attack on the vehicle transporting him, badly damaging or even destroying the "football" that was with him? How would the vice-president or anyone else in the chain of command be able to provide continuity of control over our nuclear deterrent? Good point. I always thought that "football" was mostly theater anyway. It was just there to make people feel good. I am sure a guy who really knows the system could hot wire a nuke and the subs are autonomous anyway. As a former submarine qualified Naval Officer, let me assure you that neither statement you made in your last sentence is true. The nukes are carefully designed and constructed to preclude "hot wiring". And, the subs are NOT autonomous with respect to what's required to launch a nuclear-armed weapon. All amplifying details are highly classified, as they should be! That defies logic. You are saying if the communication link between the POTUS and an individual subs is compromised, we have no response? Sounds to me like, if that is true, all they have to do is shoot down one 747 and win the war. I know that is classified too. As I previously said, "fail-safe and redundancy". That applies to command communications channels as well as to permission to launch procedures. So that means there is always more than one football. There are in fact 3 of them. I also bet there are some techs who could bypass the fail safe hardware. At a certain point there is a relay or logic line that says "go". But getting access to that without it being noticed that you have done that is another matter. That is the actual basis of the fail safe system. Most things can't be done by a single person and there are enough people watching to stop any shenanigans So your previous was mindless bull****. |
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More Heavy Trolling by Senile Nym-Shifting Rodent Speed!
On Sat, 30 Jan 2021 15:48:37 +1100, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again: FLUSH the trolling senile asshole's latest troll**** unread -- John addressing the senile Australian pest: "You are a complete idiot. But you make me larf. LOL" MID: |
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