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The Soviet Union's nuclear war computer
- ggm 9y agoI'm not trying to evoke the 'whataboutism' general response, but don't you think that automatically generated command decision systems might exist inside the US defence model at this time? Am I alone in wondering if the western threat analysis method was necessarily any better throughout the sixties, seventies and eighties. Demonstratably neither side launched, so at some level of MAD the system 'worked' but I'm less confident the risk exposed here could innately not have existed inside NATO. For instance.. the process which led to CBW risks being inflated in the decision logic to invade Iraq. Was that not machine assisted?
- John_KZ 9y agoIt's deceiving to say that a US-led attack on Soviet Union (even a nuclear one) was out of the realm of possibility at the time. The author forgets about the nuclear weapons race, and the fact that most people in power were very much alive and kicking when the US used 2 nuclear weapons on Japan, as a first strike, and not even out of necessity. Also the influence of the computer is probably exaggerated.