{"id":43588,"date":"2019-02-07T06:37:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T11:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43588"},"modified":"2019-02-07T06:38:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T11:38:01","slug":"how-a-u-s-nuclear-strike-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43588","title":{"rendered":"How A U.S. Nuclear Strike Works"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-02-06\/how-us-nuclear-strike-works\">How A U.S. Nuclear Strike Works<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If President Trump decided to launch a nuclear strike, how swiftly could he put things in motion?<\/strong>&nbsp;Would he have the sole power alone to launch a nuclear missiles?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Nuclear-Buttons-Featured-800x0-c-default.jpg?itok=tTCV-Cal\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/Nuclear-Buttons-Featured-800x0-c-default.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/16920\/steps-needed-to-launch-an-attack-with-nuclear-weapons\/\">Statista&#8217;s Niall McCarthy notes that<\/a>, according to an analysis undertaken by Bloomberg,&nbsp;<strong>the U.S. president&#8217;s power is absolute in this situation &#8211; he or she gives the order and the Pentagon is obliged to go along with it.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following infographic provides an overview of the steps necessary to make it happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/16920\/steps-needed-to-launch-an-attack-with-nuclear-weapons\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/infographic.statista.com\/normal\/chartoftheday_16920_steps_needed_to_launch_an_attack_with_nuclear_weapons_n.jpg\" alt=\"Infographic: How A U.S. Nuclear Strike Works  | Statista\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>You will find more infographics at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chartoftheday\/\">Statista<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It can take as little as five minutes from the president&#8217;s decision to strike to intercontinental missiles launching from their silos.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When it comes to submarine-launched weapons, however, it takes a little bit longer &#8211; approximately 15 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How A U.S. Nuclear Strike Works If President Trump decided to launch a nuclear strike, how swiftly could he put things in motion?&nbsp;Would he have the sole power alone to launch a nuclear missiles? Statista&#8217;s Niall McCarthy notes that, according to an analysis undertaken by Bloomberg,&nbsp;the U.S. president&#8217;s power is absolute in this situation &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17996,2583,17997,827,11226],"class_list":["post-43588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-niall-mccarthy","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-statista","tag-united-states","tag-us-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43589,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43588\/revisions\/43589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}