Originally Posted by
Fincayra
heck of a post.
This is the meat of the issue really. There needs to be something new put in place, but I don't know what. I get that it takes a considerable amount of effort, money, planning and luck to become President, and with all of that comes the terrible responsibility to make sure that we don't start WW3 on a whim. If we're truly at war and most of the cabinet/officials gets wiped out and only the president is left, then he can still initiate a launch. If the plan required permissions from all sorts of people in the administration, that just delays the response, and by the time we launch our missiles, we are dead anyway. So, I see plusses and minuses for both situations, and given the situation, I'd rather have that power consolidated in one person. But I'll say it again. I'd hate to be part of that chain of command who is issuing a launch order. Knowing that order is going to end millions, possibly billions of lives isn't something I could handle.