found online by Raymond
From Dorian de Wind at The Moderate Voice:
The defense readiness condition (DEFCON) system, developed by the U.S. Department of Defense prescribes five graduated levels of alert for our military.
The levels of alerts or defense readiness conditions increase from DEFCON 5 (in exercise form called “FADE OUT”), the lowest, “normal’” state of readiness, to DEFCON 1, (in exercise form called “COCKED PISTOL”) when the U.S. President and the U.S. Secretary of Defense and other military leaders determine that a nuclear attack is “imminent” and our military is mobilized into a maximum state of readiness.
Well, the entire DEFCON system is about to see a significant change if Donald Trump is elected president.