MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Hillary Clinton’s recent disclosure of the time it takes to launch a strike after the president pushes the nuclear button could have been against security rules, former Pentagon staff told US media.
"Whether the four minutes is accurate or not, anything having to do with response capability is generally classified," AFRICOM’s former strategic planner Dan Maguire told Fox News on Thursday.
Clinton made the remark during Wednesday night’s televised election debate with Donald Trump to show what it takes to hold nuclear codes as a US president.
“The bottom line on nuclear weapons is that when the president gives the order, it must be followed. There’s about four minutes between the order being given and the people responsible for launching nuclear weapons to do so,” Clinton said.
Dan Maguire said this showed that the former US secretary of state was incapable of protecting secret information. She previously came under fire for using a private server to keep classified data.
