Article XD09 Proposal: keep the nuclear launch codes in an innocent volunteer's chest-cavity

Proposal: keep the nuclear launch codes in an innocent volunteer's chest-cavity

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Cory Doctorow
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In 1981, Harvard law professor Roger Fisher, director of the Harvard Negotiation Project, published a thought experiment in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists: what if the codes to launch nuclear war were kept inside the chest-cavity of a young volunteer, and the President would have to hack them out of this young man's chest before he could commence armageddon? (more")

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