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Nevada Test Site. There's a reason why the huge military reservation has only ever been used to test nuclear weapons (mostly underground) -- there's nothing that is of any strategic value out there. Why would Kim's young'un drop a missile there? The area has already been bombed over hundreds of times! Just don't drink the water or breathe in any of the dust.

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You need to review that training film from the second hatch.

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I used to work in a place where every 108 minutes I had to push a button.

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It's a MAD MAD MAD MAD world.

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I am OK with this, as long as they keep our precious bodily fluids free from contamination.

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They all hate us anyhow. <a href="http://youtu.be/Du3WhHrrNgs" target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://youtu.be/Du3WhHrrNgs">http://youtu.be/Du3WhHrrNgs...

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In the 80s classic 'war games', John Spencer spends the first 5 minutes of the film expounding the excellence of his girlfriend's pot crop, then wilts into a ball of mush when the orders come down to push the button.

Dabney Coleman then talks the Preznit's aide into automating the whole system, setting in motion a practice run at Judgement Day.

who knew War Games was a documentary?

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The only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuclear missile is a good guy with a nuclear missile.

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Cheating on the exams? Didn't know the material? I guess they forgot that time-honored advice:

"Know nukes"!

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"Who'll be the missile crews' role model, now that their role model is gone gone?"

This sounds like a job for John McCain.

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The best part of Montana I found was the center because any direction you traveled from that point meant you were leaving.

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only during the previews

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Thanks Obama!

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Bomb, I need to talk to you.

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I'm not saying we won't get our hair mussed, but an unofficial study which we undertook of this eventuality indicated that pointy-headed geeks like that patent clerk from Ulm might be lost in large numbers, but we would suffer only modest and acceptable civilian casualties from their remaining force.

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