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December 11, 2015 07:54 am PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Z7X8RWOKp34/proposal-keep-the-nuclear-lau.html
Proposal: keep the nuclear launch codes in an innocent volunteer's chest-cavity
In 1981, Harvard law professor Roger Fisher, director of the Harvard Negotiation Project, published a thought experiment in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists: what if the codes to launch nuclear war were kept inside the chest-cavity of a young volunteer, and the President would have to hack them out of this young man's chest before he could commence armageddon? (more…)
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