But that meant that the two-man rule was only a facade throughout the Pacific. The system’s ability to prevent one man alone from sending off Go commands to subordinate units was a false promise. And that was in addition to the fact that the two-man rule, even if both men were present, was obviously vulnerable to collusion between them or coercion (such as a gun in the hand of one of them), either of these especially plausible in a crisis.
