Hello.
I was wondering if there was any site on the internet that provided the current DEFCON (Defense Condition) status for the United States. I don’t believe it is a seceret, because I’ve heard it reported before. Also, it would be hard to keep seceret, given the number of military personel involved.
Please note: I am not looking for the Department Of Homeland Security Terror Level. I know where I can find that.
Thanks
Steve
If it was anything but 5, CNN’d be all over it.
From searching around it seems that the Norad website ( http://www.norad.mil/ ) used to openly show the current DEFCON status but no longer does.
Apparently it was four durring the initial invasion of Iraq. From what I understand it does go to four every once in a while. Three extremely rare though. And two only was hit once.
Not to hijack the op thread, but is there a site that lists the times the defcon condition was raised?
And one is full nuclear war, correct?
From what I recall, two is nuclear war, one is “nuclear war that the US have lost”. The descriptive names for three, two and one are “Cocked Pistol”, “Big Noise”, and “Fade Out”, which doesn’t leave very much to the imagination. 
In the film “Crimson Tide”, the order to launch the missles also informs the submarine that the DEFCON is 2, not 1.
This is what I found:
“Maximum Readiness” is (or was) a nice little euphemism for deploying strategic nuclear assets.
DEFCON 5 is an absolutely peaceful state with absolutely no impending nuclear threat issues.
DEFCON 4 is like DEFCON 5, only with a bit more alertness and readiness.
DEFCON 3 involves some active level of conflict.
DEFCON 2 involves more pressing levels of conflict, with plausible nuclear issues in play.
DEFCON 1 involves an actual nuclear threat and/or nuclear response.
Take this with a grain of salt or two, as I couldn’t find a non-blog, non-Wikipedia source for this. But these definitions were consistently displayed across multiple sources, which is good for … something.
Having typed all that, we’re likely at DEFCON 4 or 5 at the moment, and of course the actual nuclear assets are always in high alert.
DEFCON says more about the probability of nuclear weapons play rather than conventional war or terrorism. DEFCON is really a measure of the Cold War, characterised by the bilateral US-USSR weapons race. Outside of that, it has little relevance, though there is use for it in the current multilateral weapons situation.
Post Cold War, nukes can come into play in many new ways, and from a more robust set of sources than the old USSR.
A question that was asked once before, about a year ago, but without anyone managing to come up with an answer.
Resurrecting a 7 year old thread with a link to some kind of bogus status (we’re at war!) from a domain that seems to be some sort of promotional thing. Looks spammy to me.
I’ll report it and let the mods figure it out.
I give it a SPAMCON Level 3.
That’s putting the Mods. on elevated spam alert, and Lynn calls Coudin Vinnie right?
SPAMCON2 calls for raising Marley to high alert; SPAMCON1 would involve deployinhg Zotti. 
Didn’t we have a simplified color chart for this?
I thought SPAMCON1 was when the goat would really earn his oats?
The spammer has been banned. Since this thread is so old, I’m going to close it.