The democrats don't want Joe Biden to have the sole authority for a nuclear launch.
Why is that?
Is Joe losing it already?
The president has sole authority to fire a nuclear weapon, but the steps aren't easy. Here's the procedure if the president called for nuclear strike.
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The president has the sole authority to call for a nuclear strike. Once the call is made, a series of critical steps follow.
The president first meets with top military advisers. The meeting would take place in the Situation Room. If the president is traveling, a call is made on a secure line.
If the president still wants to go through with the strike, the order is verified. To authenticate the order, a challenge code is read to the president. It's usually two phonetic letters like "Delta-Echo."
The president then receives the "biscuit", a laminated card that's always near the president. The biscuit has the matching response to the challenge code.
The Pentagon then broadcasts an encoded message to missile crews. The message is only about the length of a standard tweet.
It includes the war plan, "Sealed Authentication System" or (SAS) codes, and the actual missile launch codes. When the launch crews get the message they open lock safes to obtain the SAS codes. These codes are compared with the SAS codes included in the message.
If fired from a submarine the captain, executive officer, and two others authenticate the launch order. Fifteen minutes after receiving the order, the missiles could be ready to launch.
If fired from land, there are 50 missiles controlled by 5 launch crews in different locations. Each crew "votes" for the launch by turning their keys at the same time.
I'm not sure why so many democrats don't trust Joe with the nuclear launch codes??
I'm posting a poll to see how many want more people in the nuclear launch control loop.
IMHO the Joint Chiefs are more than an adequate safeguard.