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Why not remove PAL* and delegate authority to local commanders? I'd rather take the risk of trusting a human over a human designed, highly complex computer system.

In the UK, due to the lack of land-mass to absorb a strike, the PM issues final orders to the commanders of the Trident subs. This is part of the deterrence strategy.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_Action_Link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_of_last_resort

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The article on Letters of Last Resort made me think how absurd democracy can be at times.

It looks like PM May wrote her Letters of Last Resort, and then Johnson did the same. But from the looks of it, new Letters of Last Resort could be written pretty soon. Just thinking of those sub commanders, receiving new letters last week and then getting another set of letters just a couple of weeks later.

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