Sentences with phrase «nuclear launch control»

From office cubicles to nuclear launch control centers, Minneapolis - based photographer Paul Shambroom has documented various mundane and discrete American locations of power since the mid-1980s.

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Could a person in an ICBM launch control center or on a submarine, ready and willing to turn the keys that would launch the missiles carrying nuclear warheads aimed to kill over 100 million people in half an hour, possibly be considered «pro-life»?

A half - century after the Nazis began their persecution of the Jews, a process demanding, in Hilberg's words, that «moral obstacles must be removed — the internal conflicts must somehow be resolved,» an American launch control officer at an Intercontinental Ballistics Missile base, cited in David Barash and Judith Lipton's Stop Nuclear War (Grove, 1982), indicated that «we have two tasks: The first is not to let people go off their rockers.

The UK has not deployed control equipment requiring codes to be sent before weapons can be used, such as the U.S. Permissive Action Link, which if installed would preclude the possibility that military officers could launch British nuclear weapons without authorisation.

Was this was a rogue attack, launched individually by radicals who took control of a nuclear submarine, and not an act of state policy?

Last spring the nuclear missile unit at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., pulled 17 launch control officers off duty after failing inspection.