Pakistani Leaders to Retain Nuclear-Arms Authority in Crises

[Sinnerman108]

Not completely anymore. One of the reasons the system used by the US as PALs was not copied was that the leadership may be incapacitated before further weapons release is authorized. However , the release of codes is reportedly not with the NCA as such. While they are authorizing release of weapons.. they do not hold the "locks" to the codes. They do hold key numbers that unlock the authorization process in the system. This then ends with the releasing of launch authorizations down a tree that eventually heads to the various nukes we have dispersed.. which are then mated to their various launch platforms.

Tac Nukes on systems such as the Nasr may also follow similar procedure but in their case the NCA would still be very active and capable of providing instructions. So perhaps their locations are alerted earlier as compared to the locations of our more strategic systems.

Understood.
The last part of your response was what I am interested in.

You reckon the Tac Nukes may have per-authorization ? or maybe it will be a N factor less authorization system than the bigger nukes ?

Point being, it takes relatively a very short times for tank commanders to alter formations.
By the time the opposing commander fully understand he's been surprised, it may be too late already.

Thus the smaller Tac Nukes may be be fielded requiring less factors of authorizations than the normal ones.

 

[SQ8]

Understood.
The last part of your response was what I am interested in.

You reckon the Tac Nukes may have per-authorization ? or maybe it will be a N factor less authorization system than the bigger nukes ?

Point being, it takes relatively a very short times for tank commanders to alter formations.
By the time the opposing commander fully understand he's been surprised, it may be too late already.

Thus the smaller Tac Nukes may be be fielded requiring less factors of authorizations than the normal ones.

No pre-authorization. But rather may be deployed already on the system as opposed to our other nukes which are kept separate from the delivery system... not sure if they keep it within a gridline radius or not.

 

[Commander T]

Means military can't alone decide the strike?

yeah, that,s the worst part

 

[SQ8]

Means military can't alone decide the strike?

No. The NCA needs to decide by a multiple man decision that includes both civilian and military leaders on whether to deploy weapons.
Things arent x->y->z. A commander will let top hierarchy know that their ability to hold the line is compromised.. in that event the leadership(who have hotlines ready to go) then let the opposing side know or in this case world powers that can intervene such as America know that the nuclear option is coming online in 15 minutes. That gives those powers the time to plan out an emergency response(which they will already be pushing in case of war) to it and get the attacking force to stop. If that fails, and 15 minutes pass.. then the leadership has to take a decision to release the weapons.. that release then trickles down to the commanders... who then decide when and where to use the nukes.

 

[rockstarIN]

No. The NCA needs to decide by a multiple man decision that includes both civilian and military leaders on whether to deploy weapons.
Things arent x->y->z. A commander will let top hierarchy know that their ability to hold the line is compromised.. in that event the leadership(who have hotlines ready to go) then let the opposing side know or in this case world powers that can intervene such as America know that the nuclear option is coming online in 15 minutes. That gives those powers the time to plan out an emergency response(which they will already be pushing in case of war) to it and get the attacking force to stop. If that fails, and 15 minutes pass.. then the leadership has to take a decision to release the weapons.. that release then trickles down to the commanders... who then decide when and where to use the nukes.

Ya but can any low level/middle level commander make a rouge strike or they need some 'codes' from NCA to unlock the weapon activation? Surely I know that the 'best' will be given the handling of such weapon systems.

 

[The Deterrent]

Ya but can any low level/middle level commander make a rouge strike or they need some 'codes' from NCA to unlock the weapon activation? Surely I know that the 'best' will be given the handling of such weapon systems.

Of course the multiple-stage arming codes, release of which is authorized by the NCA, are necessary for any "low/middle-level commander" to arm the weapon.

 

[SQ8]

Ya but can any low level/middle level commander make a rouge strike or they need some 'codes' from NCA to unlock the weapon activation? Surely I know that the 'best' will be given the handling of such weapon systems.

No nuclear weapon will detonate until it receives codes that are authorized by the NCA... these codes do not rest with the commander.. but are released by the NCA at the time.