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nuclear decapitation

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(idea) by The Custodian (5.6 hr) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Tue Jun 20 2000 at 15:30:10

Nuclear Decapitation is a nuclear war scenario in which the command structure of a nuclear power (in the U.S., known as the NCA) is attacked via surprise nuclear strikes. The goal is to disrupt enough levels of the command structure quickly enough that the nation under attack cannot marshal its own nuclear forces to retaliate. This is, naturally, an extremely risky business; one assumes that the forces of the nation under attack have no standing orders to retaliate in case of loss of communications with the head office. It is made only slightly more feasible by the existence of PALs whose codes must be disseminated by a national command structure in order to use nuclear weapons, given that PALs can be reprogrammed or their codes pre-distributed.

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