Shiftheads - When Treason Was the Backup Plan To Save Humanity

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift · Apr 16, 2026 · 19m

Nuclear weapons control rests, constitutionally, with one person. In 1969 that person was drunk, incensed, and on the phone to the Joint Chiefs ordering a strike on North Korea.

Is a patriot someone who follows the law or someone who breaks it to protect the country? That question is not rhetorical. It is the specific calculation that a secretary of defense and a general both made, decades apart, when they quietly placed themselves between a president and the button. One had no constitutional authority. Neither did the other.

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