Sentences with phrase «nuclear launch officers»

Cheating has been a fact of life among America's nuclear launch officers for decades, crew members and instructors said.

Not exact matches

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.

The top officer at U.S. Strategic Command said an order from Trump or any of his successors to launch nuclear weapons can be refused if that order is determined to be illegal.

Already, anti-nuclear activists in Hong Kong, including Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, have launched a petition this week to oppose further expansion of nuclear capacity in Guangdong, according to Frances Yeung, senior environmental affairs officer at Friends of the Earth's Hong Kong office.

After Dreamworks SKG was launched to great fanfare, its first movie release was an escapist action thriller, 1997's The Peacemaker, starring George Clooney and Nicole Kidman trying to save the world from some rogue Russian army officers who steal some nuclear bombs.

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