[sci.military] Nuclear weapon control

beckerd@grover.cs.unc.edu (David Becker) (01/08/90)

From: beckerd@grover.cs.unc.edu (David Becker)
In article <12854@cbnews.ATT.COM> budden@trout.nosc.mil (Rex A. Buddenberg) writes:
>     - a deterrent requirement still remains.  You have potentially
>desparate men in the Kremlin, a real possibility that their intra-USSR
>empire will come down around their ears, and those folks still have the
>keys to enough firepower to blow us all away.  

OK, I'll ask.  Who has the keys in the USSR in an internal crisis, revolution or
whatever?  Are the workings of the Russian nuclear command and control system
public?

David Becker  beckerd@cs.unc.edu