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Ace of the Deep
 Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Cambridgeshire - UK
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Nuclear weapons launch...
Just finished watching Crimson Tide, brilliant film
 a good thriller. However, it got me thinking. When they recieve the original EAM authorizing deployment of SLBM's, I thought holy ****, what must it feel like to be on a boomer knowing that by pressing a single button you will wipe out millions if not billions of lives. Such is the harsh reality of nuclear war, but putting yourself in that position... would you personally be able to carry out an order like that... to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike? I don't think I could, and if I could I don't believe I could live with myself. I'm talking in the sence that its a pre-emptive strike, if russian/chinese missiles were already in the air I think I would act differently knowing what was about to happen to the people I love... what do you guys think?
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