CNN: Exclusive: Inside the base that would oversee a US nuclear strike
Offutt Airbase, Nebraska (CNN)If the unthinkable happens and a nuclear exchange between the US and North Korea or Russia happens, President Donald Trump will rely on a secure underground facility at a base in the middle of the United States to carry out his orders.
And four-star Air Force Gen. John Hyten, the commander of US Strategic Command, would be at the center of it all.
"Our strategic responses are always ready to respond and everybody should know that," Hyten told CNN in an interview inside the highly secured 'Battle Deck' where he would oversee a nuclear response if the US is attacked or if Trump decides to launch a pre-emptive strike. "That they are ready this minute -- under the ground, under the sea, in the air, we are ready to respond, and the adversaries of the world -- including Kim Jong Un -- have to know that."
Hyten spoke earlier this month as CNN was granted exclusive access to Strategic Command headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base in eastern Nebraska.
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Update: Strategic Command Boss's Computer Screens Go Dark When Foreign Missile Is Launched. (The Drive).
WNU Editor:I suspect that everytime the warning alarm of a missile launch goes off .... everyone in nervous in those first few seconds.
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