In a last-ditch effort to frighten the magistrate, Leon Weidman made one of the most outrageous statements that have probably ever been uttered by a Federal prosecutor in court: he told Magistrate Tassopulos that I could start a nuclear holocaust. "He can whistle into a telephone and launch a nuclear missile from NORAD," he said. Where could he have possibly come up with that ridiculous notion? NORAD computers aren’t even connected to the outside world. And they obviously don’t use the public telephone lines for issuing launch commands.