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De-Alert Nuclear Weapons to Prevent Accidental Nuclear War

Created by C.C. on February 07, 2013

There are still thousands of U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert. Worse, with the collapse of Russian military strength, Russia relies even more on nuclear weapons than it did before. The United States and Russia give themselves just 15 minutes to evaluate signs of attack on their radar, and then launch massive retaliation.

In 1995 Russia's Strategic Command and Control mistook a Norwegian weather rocket for a Trident missile. Fortunately, Yeltsin was sober that day and countermanded the launch-on-warning.

Please immediately begin a process of de-alerting U.S. nuclear weapons and negotiating reciprocal de-alerting in Russia. This involves removing the warhead from the delivery system so it takes days instead of minutes to launch a nuclear weapon.

Homeland Security & Defense
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