> There have been far fewer incidents of humans causing nuclear war by either following or disobeying orders True - but if you add the words "nearly" and "alle

> There have been far fewer incidents of humans causing nuclear war by either following or disobeying orders True - but if you add the words "nearly" and "allegedly", then it's not such a rosy picture. The book "Red Star Rogue" proposes the idea that the Soviet submarine K-129 was commandeered and attempted to launch a first strike on the United States in 1968. She was very far off her expected course when sunk, and allegedly there was a fail-safe system that scuttled the boat when an unauthorized attempt was made to launch her missiles.[1] The US's nuclear weapons were capable of being used by a single individual for quite some time, until the 1960s. Even with the advent of the Permissive Action Link, until 1977 the 8-digit arming code was - seriously - "00000000". They were worried they wouldn't have the code available if the weapons were needed.[2] There are numerous "close calls" that occurred, but those two came to mind right away in the context of human beings causing or having nearly caused a nuclear attack by disobeying orders in particular. 1: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/red-star-rogue https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/red-star-rogue 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_Action_Link#Development_and_dissemination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_Action_Link#Develop...