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This is a legitimate concern with the "young" nuclear powers, like India and Pakistan. Their detection technology is less mature; their command-and-control syst
by caymanjim 7y ago
This is a legitimate concern with the "young" nuclear powers, like India and Pakistan. Their detection technology is less mature; their command-and-control systems are less mature; there's a higher level of tension between the two. Neither country is incompetent or hungry for war, but it's worrying to me. I'd expect them to behave rationally, but if the timing happened to coincide with a particularly combative episode, things could get out of control. I'm not even going to speculate about how North Korea might react; they're a total wildcard.
- vinayms 7y agoThis is just alarmist. The bravado shown on TV is surely not taken seriously by the authorities themselves for they know the consequences. So even if the point of impact coincides with the crescendo of tension to the T, sanity will prevail despite it seeming otherwise.
- familysized 7y agoThat is a very naive point of view. You don't know that their systems are "less mature". And do you really think thousands of seasoned scientists on both sides are going to misclassify any such event?