Proposal: keep the nuclear launch codes in an innocent volunteer's chest-cavity

boing
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No, it was hunter2

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I just hope that some techie, who deals with just the right piece of equipment has quietly disarmed the entire stockpile. A simple wire attached to the wrong spot.

That simple act someday saves the world.

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Ooooh! Next question! Where do we stick the key to his mineshaft?

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Well that’s just lovely!

I would watch this movie.

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This idea was put to good literary use in Nancy Collins’ short story, “Iphigenia”, in the short story anthology “There Won’t Be War”. The narrator is a young girl who had the codes surgically implanted inside her.

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Morally lost is the nuance you’re missing there. And there’s good arguments to suggest those two detonations were completely unnecessary to victory.

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It’s a great question – why do the UN peacekeepers carry weapons? – but it hardly matters since their rules of engagement are so completely stupid they never use them to keep the peace. Not in Rwanda, not in Srebrenica. Last time I think the UN actually took a meaningful shot in anger was in the 1960 Congo crisis. Fuck them.

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