Two-person rule
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The two-person rule is a control mechanism designed to achieve a high level of security for especially critical material or operations. Under this rule, access and actions require the presence of two
Sign in the Titan Missile Museum
Crimson Tide (film)
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Crimson Tide is a 1995 American submarine action thriller film directed by Tony Scott and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. It takes place during a fictional period of political turmoil i
Two-person rule
…his reason, saying, "The reason for having two missile keys is so that no one man may arm the missiles." The two-person rule was crucial in the movie Crimson Tide when the captain and the executive officer of the USS Alabama disagreed over the release of nuclear weapons. In the Tom Clancy novel The Sum of All…
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Denzel Washington in the White House, December 1999
Gene Hackman in the White House, 1987