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#538 - Andrew Bustamante - CIA Spy Explains Nukes, Wars & Double Agents
Modern Wisdom
The Conscientious Obsessed Atomic Missile Officer
In the US, junior officers are in charge of missile silos and they're carrying a nuclear key around their neck. In Russia, it's the opposite. They are senior ranking officers who control the nuclear weapons. So if the president of Putin says launch and the person in charge of the missile is a conscientious objector, he won't launch. It's a completely different model than ours, junior officer versus senior officer.
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