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It would have required both sides to agree to that mythology. As the article points out, we knew when things went wrong with them (via the NSA), and chances are
by archgoon 16y ago
It would have required both sides to agree to that mythology. As the article points out, we knew when things went wrong with them (via the NSA), and chances are sooner or later they'd find out when things went wrong with us (via the KGB). It would have required not only secrecy on their half, but secrecy on our half.
- pbhjpbhj 16y agoI don't find it that hard to believe that it was bilateral. At first it gives too much up to show how much detail one knows about the other side. Then one doesn't want to announce your own deaths because the other side hasn't and you don't want to appear to be losing/weaker/less capable. If you leak the deaths on the other side then they'll leak yours (like a sort of mutually assured destruction) and possibly cause an end to space exploration programmes - neither side that knows enough wants to do that surely? tl;dr seems reasonable to me that both sides may have had more deaths they all kept secret about
- hammock 16y agoPrisoner's dilemma. Easily solved by cooperation.