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In reply to the discussion: Time For The Generals To Do Their Job And Have The Military Step In..... [View all]Caliman73
(11,730 posts)The Nuclear football is a briefcase with authorization PROTOCOLS. While the process is actually frighteningly quick. There is no little button for Trump to push that is solely under his command. Trump and his detail open the case, confirm the codes, call the commanders in charge of issuing the launch order. Once the codes are confirmed, the commanders give the launch orders to their subordinates with the protocols. It is a chain, and while to prevailing thought is that it is a reflexive chain, there are still steps where the chain can be interrupted.
Look, the situation is not good but seriously, take an Ativan.
North Korea does not have the capability of any retaliatory strike. That would be China or Russia (who does not have any defense treaty with North Korea). China would have to decide if they want to the world to go full nuclear war.
Now any strike by us would cause chaos as North Korea does have military capability to take out Seoul, causing millions of deaths and essentially crashing the world's economy, but you are equating the situation with launching against China or Russia who have multiple warhead on multiple systems.
Don't let your panic get in the way of rational thinking.