The Nuclear Option: One Finger from Death
December 22, 2020 by Leonard Benton
The day starts without the sun. The clock measures time, but gives no understanding. For the watch officer, the seconds stretch like hours. And yet, these service members sit as a shield on the front and final line of defense for our nation — the watch officer in a nuclear silo prepared to end the world.
I am a child of the Cold War. I remember the fallout shelter in my school as a boy. I watched the films and understood, as much as I could, that the Soviet Union might launch missiles at America, so we must be ready to return fire. Mutual Assured Destruction was the name of the tactic. No one could win so we prevented anyone from trying.
nuclear finger dpcToday we grapple with men and women changed by war. They encountered stress at levels pushing them into emotional turbulence that threatens their very existence. Yet how much stress is faced by those standing the watch — for decades — ready to unleash the death of the world?
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