DDRS, Briefing to the Gilpatric Committee by William J. Howard

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This wide-ranging briefing tackles a number of topics, including the status of the permissive access links (PAL) program, the employment of a two-team safety process for PAL code management, the conditions and procedures necessary for the transmission and storage of atomic information outside of the United States,  and the methodology of effective command and control.

The briefing concludes with a short list of safety standards:

a.     There will be positive measures to prevent weapons involved in accidents or incidents of jettisoned weapons from producing a nuclear yield.

b.     There will be positive measures to prevent deliberate arming, launching, firing, or releasing except upon execution of emergency war orders or when directed by competent authority.

c.     There will be positive measures to prevent inadvertent arming, launching, firing, or releasing.

d.     There will be positive measures to insure adequate security.

Considerable material is redacted.

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Document entry started by Max Rizzuto on June 3, 2018. Entry last updated by Mikael Kelly on October 2, 2018.