Anonymous ID: 00a0fb Aug. 12, 2020, 2:35 a.m. No.10261519   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>1532 >>1635 >>1847 >>2012 >>2172 >>2233

Italian Explosives Expert: The Beirut Blast’s Massive Red Cloud is Indicative of Lithium Metal Which is a Propellant in Military Missiles — IT WAS AN EXPLOSIVES STORAGE FACILITY

 

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https://wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/emailid/966397

 

Bill Clinton lost the secret codes that would be used to

authorise a US nuclear strike during the last year of his

presidency, a new book has alleged.

 

General Hugh Shelton, who served as chairman of the joint

chiefs of staff under Mr Clinton, says the codes were lost for

months, leaving the US unable to launch its nuclear weapons.

 

“This is the one point in the system where there is no backup

and it failed,” he says in his book, Without Hesitation.

“Without [the presidential authorisation codes] it doesn’t

matter if we’ve got a thousand missiles verified inbound to the

US, we would be unable to launch a retaliatory strike.”

The allegation about the frailty of the world’s biggest

nuclear deterrent – the US retains more than 5,000 operational

warheads – comes after a 2007 incident when a B52 bomber flew

across the country with six nuclear weapons accidentally on

board.

 

Gen Shelton adds that the loss of the codes only came to

light “around the year 2000”, when they were due to be

replaced by a new set. For months beforehand, he says, defence

department officials had tried to verify that the codes were

still in place, only to be fobbed off by Mr Clinton’s staff,

who said he was in a meeting and had the codes on his person.

 

Typically, the codes, which are replaced every four months,

are kept by the president or a very close aide. Gen Shelton

says that no exceptions are now allowed to the requirement

that the codes be physically inspected every month. But he

adds that both he and William Cohen, then Secretary of

Defence, were terrified of a potential newspaper headline

reading: “President loses key to nukes – launches impossible.”

 

A lower level military official, retired Lieutenant Colonel

Robert Patterson, wrote in a book of his own in 2003 that Mr

Clinton lost the codes during the 1998 scandal over Monica

Lewinsky, the former intern with whom the president had sexual

relations.

 

Col Patterson, who carried the “nuclear football” of codes

for the president, quotes Mr Clinton as saying: “I don’t have

mine on me: I’ll track it down, guys, and get back to you.” He

adds that on other occasions Mr Clinton had misplaced the

codes, which he attached by a rubber band to credit cards in

his wallet.