Anytime someone threatens to go DEFCON 5 on you or a loved one, then, readily take them up on their offer as amity should shortly be restored.ДЄlert is raised from there with progressively lower numbers.

What then, is DEFCON 5? Again from the Encyclopedia of the Cold War, вЂњDEFCON 5: Normal peacetime readinessВ The lowest alert level in the DEFCON systemвЂ¦вЂќ DEFCON 5 is as low as alerts go, and is the traditional status for most military forces. To be charitable, though, he likely knew this and was making an exaggerated claim for effect. DeaceвЂ™s first error is that DEFCON scales from 1 to 5, not 6. Deace is likely referring the now defunct color-coded threat warning system instituted in the aftermath of the attacks of 9/11, where orange was second only to the red warning of an imminent attack.В On the second concern, Deace completely mangles the DEFCON warning system, and so gives us anВ opportunityВ to get our nuclear war metaphors straight once and for all.ДEFCON is short for DEFense CONdition, and according to the Encyclopedia of the Cold War, вЂњThe DEFCON system is divided into five different alert levels with detailed, if ambiguous, descriptions and expected actions by military forces at each threat level.вЂќ Mr. Business Insider reports that вЂњSteve Deace, an influential conservative Iowa talk show hostвЂќ has been making profound declarations that, should the Supreme Court strike down anti-gay marriage laws, вЂњItвЂ™s going to raise the issue to Orange Threat Level, itвЂ™ll be DEFCON 6вЂ¦вЂќ In the first instance Mr.

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