And with that change from the DEFCON 5 condition to the DEFCON 3 condition, the rules of engagement for North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) changed. There was a discussion with the Vice President and the President about it. It was determined that the Secretary of Defense had the authority to declare defense readiness condition Defense Command (DEFCON) 3 on his authority. In that period of time, the two of them were consulted on the defense condition that we were going to establish. The Chairman joined it at roughly 20 minutes after the hour. Were Wikipedia and all those websites wrong? I now looked further and finally found this as something that's not a suspicious mirror of this article: ( source)Īmong the first things that were done were there was a conference call that was in session.
BryanEkers 23:20, 11 April 2007 (UTC) I agree, that commentary confused me too.
Less accurate is that Barry Corbin's character, an Air Force General, can casually order the alert level up and down with no direct input from the President. I dunno about the commentary, but in the film 5 is peace and 1 is war, which is accurate. In the director's commentry for the film, 'Wargames', it was acknowledged that their depiction of the sequence was later discovered to be the exact opposite to reality: 5 being war and 1 actually meaning world peace.Ĭould such information be confirmed? -The preceding unsigned comment was added by Xenomorphine ( talk
