RamscoopRaider
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At least there ARE fail safes with a bomber (or strike fighter, fighter bomber or attack aircraft), once a missile flies that's all she wroteThat all well and good until General Ripper disconnects the fail safes :O
Plus the problem was not that General Ripper disconnected the failsafes (he didn't, he misused existing orders and procedures), but that Major Kong's B-52 had been damaged so could not receive the abort code, which only General Ripper had until his blotter was examined after his death