15 minutes is more or less the time you have to "intervene with overwhelming force". That's the time it takes for U.S. submarine-based nukes to be launched. It's 5 minutes for U.S. ground silos, but I'm being generous here and I give us the maximum time for a strike from Russia.

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Nikos Papakonstantinou
Nikos Papakonstantinou

Written by Nikos Papakonstantinou

It’s time to ponder the reality of our situation and the situation of our reality.

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