Darrell Castle talks about whether the President of the United States is physically and mentally capable of doing the job he holds which includes the retaliatory launch of nuclear missiles when an enemy launch is detected.

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WHO IS MINDING THE LAUNCH CODES?

Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday the 5th day of March in the year of our Lord 2021. Today I will be talking about whether the President of the United States is physically and mentally capable of doing the job he holds. That job includes the retaliatory launch of nuclear missiles when an enemy launch is detected, a concept known as launch on warning.

First though, the Castle family is enjoying the sudden spring like weather that has returned following our weeklong bout with freezing artic winter. Spring temperatures are here, and the ducks and geese are returning from their migration to escape the frozen lakes. The family daughter has no geese in Los Angeles, but she is doing well in the almost perfect, at least for now, weather of Southern California.

Since the use of nuclear weapons brought an end to World War ll, and a beginning to the nuclear age the authority to launch nuclear missiles has resided in the President of the United States. A military officer follows the President everywhere he goes day and night with a briefcase that contains the launch codes and the launch sequence for the nation’s nuclear arsenal.

The reasoning is that a launch anywhere in the world can be detected instantly and the president would have literally seconds to launch before our own strike capability was destroyed by an incoming enemy attack. American missiles must be out of their launch silos before the enemy missiles hit. As I said in my opening paragraph that concept is known as launch on warning.

We are now capable of retaliation even if every launch silo were destroyed because we have nuclear missile submarines prowling 1000 feet beneath the oceans each with 24 nuclear Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles each of those with up to 10 warheads capable of hitting 10 different targets anywhere in the world. If that all sounds like madness that’s because it is. Its madness but it is also reality and for the entire nuclear age that madness has been in the hands and the mind of the President.

What happens if the President loses his mind or has no mind to begin with? That is a nightmare scenario that Hollywood movies portray, but it is also unfortunately a realistic possibility. If not the President, then who? What person can be trusted what group of people can be consulted within the seconds that are available before disaster happens. The President doesn’t have to be unhinged or mad, he just has to be mentally incapable of thought or rationality to generate a nightmare scenario.

President Biden is President, in part because the COVID virus allowed his handlers and his Party to keep him locked away so the American people could not see that he could not complete a coherent sentence or keep a thought in his head for a full sentence. When does he exhibit this failure today? Constantly, all the time, every single time he speaks without exception. The man simply cannot complete a sentence in a coherent understandable fashion. Most of the time when he speaks one is left wondering what he said, and if he knows where he is.

I’m not trying to be unduly harsh toward President Biden or to say something that might damage him. Politically, I disagree with him totally and completely, but he is still the President and if there is a hostile launch, I would like to know that he can respond, but it is obvious to me that he cannot. If you don’t believe me just listen to him anytime he speaks in public to anyone.

The other day I heard him speaking from script to a group of reporters about some policy matter and his wife Jill was right there as she always is and in the middle of one of his incoherent sentences,