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To: Captainpaintball
For Your Eyes Only (1981):

Ah, there you are,

. Minister, Chief of Staff.

Are you aware of our ATAC system?

ATAC, sir? Automatic Targeting Attack Communicator?

Uses an ultra-low frequency coded transmitter... to order our submarines to launch ballistic missiles.

Five days ago, our spy ship, St. Georges was sunk... in the Ionian Sea.

She was equipped with ATAC.

Now, if that transmitter were to fall into the wrong hands... it would render our entire Polaris fleet useless.

- Every order could be countermanded.

- Worse. Our own submarines could be ordered to attack our own cities.

104 posted on 11/13/2010 3:51:34 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: buccaneer81
Automatic Targeting Attack Communicator?

Uses an ultra-low frequency coded transmitter... to order our submarines to launch ballistic missiles.

Five days ago, our spy ship, St. Georges was sunk... in the Ionian Sea.

She was equipped with ATAC. Now, if that transmitter were to fall into the wrong hands... it would render our entire Polaris fleet useless. - Every order could be countermanded. - Worse. Our own submarines could be ordered to attack our own cities.

If half of what you're saying is true, we're in the soup.

115 posted on 11/13/2010 3:58:56 PM PST by GOPJ ('Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power." Martin Buber /a Tea-nami's coming..)
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To: buccaneer81; silverleaf

Here’s what buccaneer has to say:

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For Your Eyes Only (1981):

Ah, there you are,

. Minister, Chief of Staff.

Are you aware of our ATAC system?

ATAC, sir? Automatic Targeting Attack Communicator?

Uses an ultra-low frequency coded transmitter... to order our submarines to launch ballistic missiles.

Five days ago, our spy ship, St. Georges was sunk... in the Ionian Sea.

She was equipped with ATAC.

Now, if that transmitter were to fall into the wrong hands... it would render our entire Polaris fleet useless.

- Every order could be countermanded.

- Worse. Our own submarines could be ordered to attack our own cities.


124 posted on 11/13/2010 4:02:29 PM PST by GOPJ ('Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power." Martin Buber /a Tea-nami's coming..)
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