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christianSpaceman
Is it literal, functional permission - like, they have to push a big red button as well as us to allow a launch, or a political thing, but they could technically be used.
I've read that in the event of nuclear event, one of the options is to allow the captain of the subs the option to make a judgement call on what to do - it doesn't make sense that he'd have to call people to get his missiles enabled.
I don't know why I think you'd know this by the way!