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Command and Control [1] is highly recommended, and discusses this very situation, along with the always/never constraints on nuclear weapons. Nuclear Weapons s
by csours 10y ago
Command and Control [1] is highly recommended, and discusses this very situation, along with the always/never constraints on nuclear weapons.
Nuclear Weapons should Always go off when used legitimately, and Never go off when not authorized.
Before reading this I had never really thought through the idea of fail-safe, especially that it has an implicit opposite: fail-deadly.
1. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C5R7F8G/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1#navbar https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C5R7F8G/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...