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Negative Authorization

Categories: Regulations

"You are not authorized to push The Red Button." Only the prez can do that.

Remember Dr. Strangelove? Yeah, the ending.

Don't push the red button...you are negatively authorized to do so. And yes, we know it sounds like military gobbledygook from Handmaid's Tale.

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