Russian missile drill triggers false alarm at US military base in Germany

[TomVilmer]

A Russian military exercise triggered an unusual warning at a critical US military base in Germany on Saturday that ballistic missiles had been launched.
The warning at Ramstein Air Base resulted in several minutes of uncertainty and alarm until an all-clear was sounded. The initial assessment is that the missile warning may have been triggered when US intelligence satellites detected a launch.
Highly classified US military satellites that track the infrared trail of ballistic missiles determined that a submerged Russian submarine had test fired four intercontinental missiles from its underwater location in the Sea of Okhotsk off eastern Russia on Saturday.
The alarm was sounded in Germany moments later. A statement by the US military in Europe Monday acknowledged the incident at Ramstein and in the surrounding areas where personnel received computerized notifications. A missile warning was also sounded on Ramstein via a loudspeaker system.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/14/politics/russia-missile-drill-false-alarm-us-base/index.html

Russia had warned about this exercise, so no reason for alarm - but this is how close we all are to annihilation if a scared finger hits the wrong button.

[Chakaconcarne]

2. Well, now that they've hacked us they can test to see how our systems respond?

[TomVilmer]

3. We need stronger guardrails on the nuclear trigger

Biden should sign a directive stipulating that any decision to use nuclear force—either first use or self-defense when the decision-making timetable allows—should involve consultations with specified senior executive branch policy and legal officials as well as with the leaders of both parties in Congress.
Congress could conduct a careful review of the severe erosion of its constitutional responsibility to declare war—and investigate how the War Powers Act has practically ceased to function and might be remedied.
Ernest J. Moniz and Sam Nunn: The World Needs a Wake-Up Call.

https://nuclear-news.net/2020/12/17/sleepwalking-toward-the-nuclear-precipice/

[TomVilmer]

5. "No". I am amazed at your level of argumentation...

... and very happy that people like Ernest J. Moniz and Sam Nunn has way more influence.

History is more than the past four years. A little historical knowledge:
- That time a drunk Richard Nixon tried to nuke North Korea