{"id":8798,"date":"2013-05-11T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8798"},"modified":"2013-05-11T12:30:33","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T16:30:33","slug":"americas-nuclear-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/americas-nuclear-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Nuclear Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/051113_1625_AmericasNuc1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"473\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Robert Burns talked about a very different kind of nuclear crisis:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Air Force recently suspended 17 officers who have the authority to launch intercontinental nuclear missiles because they were determined to be unfit for the role.<\/li>\n<li>The problem is a crisis of morale. The world is moving towards fewer nuclear weapons, not more, and so officers in the units think they&#8217;re careers are headed nowhere.<\/li>\n<li>Moreover the task of manning the nuclear missiles isn&#8217;t particularly glamorous. It involves standing around 60 feet underground, with the launch keys, waiting for the President to make a decision to initiate a nuclear attack.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the problems with the guardians of American nuclear weapons, how the Air Force is trying to fix the problem, and what political leaders have to say over <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/wireStory\/ap-exclusive-air-force-sidelines-17-icbm-officers-19155091\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/wireStory\/ap-exclusive-air-force-sidelines-17-icbm-officers-19155091\">ABC News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Burns talked about a very different kind of nuclear crisis: The Air Force recently suspended 17 officers who have the authority to launch intercontinental nuclear missiles because they were determined to be unfit for the role. The problem is a crisis of morale. The world is moving towards fewer nuclear weapons, not more, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/051113_1625_AmericasNuc1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8798"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8801,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8798\/revisions\/8801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}