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[–] z_impaler ago 

It's like a picnic basket for starting a nuclear war.

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[–] antisocialist ago 

I'm of the mind it's a PR decoy of something that probably worked in the 80s. I suspect a big part of the nuclear fail safes on both sides rely on the military keeping the auto destruct button away from a single individual. Imagine some terrorist organization or 3rd party coup from another nation setting up a ruse to bait one side or another into attacking. President Obama or even Putin spend time overseas and any number of overzealous bad actors could hoax either leader into believing their own country has been attacked goading them into entering the launch codes, or a detonation of a nuclear weapon in a false flag attack to make one side attack the other. Also our current political climate where both candidates running for the US presidency as well as important members of foreign governments are threatening nuclear war if one person gets elected over the other. There's also the nature of the cooperation between the US and Russia that doesn't quite add up with the political beefs. Politically posturing over the ukraine, syria, and the pacific. While their joint exercises like Kowari near key space defense installations make their military cooperation appear to be more alarmed by outside threats. Something like the Satan missile Russia's announcing has no purpose other than suicide in an actual war between nations but would be really fucking handy if ET decides we're their next backwater colony.

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[–] Cb404 ago  (edited ago)

Ideally it should contain enough amperage to kill whoever pushes the button. Knowledge passed from president to president. So it's really all or nothing. No hidding in a concrete bunker as the world burns due to your decision. Secretly not connected to anything in reality, but a really powerful capacitor