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The point is that a pilot sitting on quick alert can't go bomb the Russians on their own.
Even more importantly, a NATO pilot sitting on quick alert with a borrowed American nuclear bomb cannot bomb the Russians (or their mother-in-law) on their own.
Even more importantly, a NATO pilot sitting on quick alert with a borrowed American nuclear bomb cannot bomb the Russians (or their mother-in-law) on their own.
Nonsense, of course. Authorisation is authorisation regardless of sanity.