To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Nuclear Launch Authorization
We petition The U.S. Congress and or President to change the U.S. nuclear launch authorization to require authorization by two or more persons instead of just one person (the President), as currently required, before any nuclear attack can be launched and only if a nuclear attack has actually been made against the U.S. or its allies.
Why is this important?
To allow one person (the U.S. President) the ability to launch any or all of our 2000 nuclear missiles at a moments notice is extremely dangerous. Such an action could take hundreds of million lives (think 5 times all those lost in both World War I and World War II) and possibly destroy the Earth's ability to support human life. Furthermore if a country launched an attack of any size against the U.S. our triad of nuclear delivery systems (submarines, airborne bombers and ground based silos) would survive in sufficient quantity to destroy the attacker. The real danger is a mistaken launch. A single person might receive wrong or misleading information, be affected by personal bias, or suffer an accident or sickness affecting judgment resulting in a launch without just cause thereby unnecessarily devastating our world.