In the report we enumerated a complex and tiered command and control infrastructure.

FORBES: Shadows In The Cloud

But the complex bill did not command the support of the then Secretary of State for Social Services, Richard Crossman, who asked Alf who he thought he was, after barely five years at Westminster, to be instructing him on social priorities.

BBC: Alf Morris, the 'quiet revolutionary'

Officials said that they saw little need to hurry what was a sensitive and complex process because there was a de facto command authority in place, with the prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, in charge of the nuclear trigger.

ECONOMIST: Controlling the nuclear decision