Keeping Nuclear Missiles on Hair-Trigger Alert is Absurd - Here's What You Can Do About It

Keeping Nuclear Missiles on Hair-Trigger Alert is Absurd - Here's What You Can Do About It

It's unsettling that life as we know it could forever change in a blink of an eye—all because the United States and Russia each have made the dangerous and unnecessary choice to keep nearly 1,000 nuclear missiles on hair-trigger alert, ready for immediate launch. What's especially alarming is how close to nuclear disaster we've come because of some computer malfunction, human error, or other false alarm.

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