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#210 — The Logic of Doomsday

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Idit Has to Be With Just One Civilian?

The president can order a launch of nuclear weapons using the football. That order would then go on to the national military command centre, which would then go to the missiliers and the bases or things. But if you take away the necessity o make a decision in five minutes, having a single person make that decision makes no sense at all. i think i want to illustrate just how scary our presidential sole authority system is....

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