national security?
I heard that this movie was limited or stalled for realease because it did show very likely scenarios that could of had an impact on national security. Anybody have some insight on this??
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Maybe the Department of Homeland Security prevented its release on DVD.
share"I heard that this movie was limited or stalled for realease because it did show very likely scenarios that could of had an impact on national security."
What you heard is incorrect. It would have been a physical impossibility in real life to launch an ICBM in the way it was depicted in this movie. The most obvious deviation from the truth; it actually requires two different groups of men miles apart from each other in bunkers to turn their keys -- a total of 4 men turning 4 keys simultaneously -- to launch a missile. In this movie, just 2 people in one bunker would have able to launch a missile and that has never been the case. No one in the Air Force or the Government was worried about this movie.
According to wiki you are wrong, only two (2) authorized men were (are?) needed to launch an ICBM or SLBM.
From Wiki...
Per US Air Force Instruction (AFI) 91-104, "The Two-Person Concept" is designed to prevent accidental or malicious launch of nuclear weapons by a single individual.
In the case of Minuteman missile launch crews, both operators must agree that the launch order is valid by comparing the authorization code in the launch order against a Sealed Authenticator (a special sealed envelope which holds the code).
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On a submarine, both the commanding officer and executive officer must agree that the order to launch is valid and then mutually authorize the launch with their operations personnel. Instead of another party who would confirm a missile launch as in the case of land-based ICBMs, the set of keys is distributed among the key personnel on the submarine and are kept in safes (each of these crew members has access only to his or her keys).
Source...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-man_rule#Nuclear_weapons
If you have other info, go edit Wiki and include sources. But until you do, you are wrong.