DEFCON is an acronym for "defense readiness condition". It currently has five levels, the highest number "5" indicating relative calm and the lowest number "1" suggesting nuclear war is imminent. Presumably the next gradation is "Ground Zero". Since DEFCON was created in 1959 it has never been designated worse than "3". That number was invoked on two occasions: (1) Yom Kippur War in 1973 when Egypt and Syria initiated a war against Israel and it was feared the Soviet Union would intervene (sound familiar today?), and (2) an incident at Panmunjom in 1976, decades after the war involving actual hostilities between North and South Korea (1950-1953) had ended. Hillary Clinton is reprising Lyndon Johnson's tactic used against Barry Goldwater . . . accuse the opponent of moving the country toward nuclear war. In the 1964 presidential campaign, LBJ employed the now famous "Daisy Girl" ad depicting a child in a meadow picking petals from a flower as a mushroom cloud appears in the background. Similarly, Hillary warns voters that Trump should not be allowed anywhere near the "football" containing the nuclear codes lest he push the button.

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