It was the Toddler's Fault

There are some people and organizations whose power over other people's lives is so great that we are forced to pay attention to their every utterance, for example, POTUS, the Pope, and the leaders of China and Russia.

It's easy to forget them after the Cold War ended, but the Strategic Air Command has the ability to destroy the world.

A Sunday night tweet alarmed some people and puzzled everyone else. [bold added]

Chuckle? Hide in a bunker?

The social media world wasn’t quite sure what to do when the Nebraska-based U.S. Strategic Command tweeted out a bit of gibberish Sunday night on its official Twitter account....

Thirty minutes later, StratCom issued a follow-up tweet apologizing “for any confusion” and asking that the previous tweet be disregarded...

the Command’s Twitter manager was working from home when he stepped away from his computer with the Twitter account open.

You can guess what happened next.

His child, who is described as “very young,” sat down at the keyboard and started playing with the keys — and then, somehow, hit “Send.”

Good thing the toddler couldn't access the arming and launch codes, right? Right!?!