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Dispatch From A Nuclear Petting Zoo

Twenty minutes after our bus departed from downtown Omaha, my fellow passengers and I arrived at Offutt Air Force Base, home to the United States Strategic Command. Stratcom, as it’s known, is responsible for maintaining, protecting, and—should the president give the order—employing the US arsenal of more than 1,700 deployed nuclear warheads.

This  Collin Van Son and originally published by The Bulletin Of The Atomic Scientists.

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