From: nuny@bid.nes   
      
   On Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at 10:59:08 AM UTC-8, trident wrote:   
   > I knoww that there are serious isues with submarine communication (ELF and   
   VLF   
   > enable only low rate communication). But today's buoys enable connection with   
   > geostationary/geosynchronous satellites (impervious to nuclear attack at 18   
   > hours timeframe or so).   
      
     You're assuming that satellites are invulnerable but they aren't. The US is   
   not the only country with fighter-launched ASAT missile technology. Plus   
   there's the X-37.   
      
   > So why we are not hearing about any nation using submarines not just to   
   launch   
   > missiles but to command launching too all forces?   
      
     For one of two reasons.   
      
   1. No country does that.   
      
   2. At least one country does but doesn't tell anyone.   
      
     I have no idea how to tell which is right.   
      
   > Only British submarine captain can order launch in case of goverment's   
   > destruction but US and Russia use only airplanes and bunkers as secondary   
   > command posts...   
      
     ...that you know of.   
      
      
     Mark L. Fergerson   
      
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