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And sometimes they might refuse to launch on targets in the enemy's country. http://lesswrong.com/lw/jq/926_is_petrov_day/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/jq/926_is_pet
by Jach 15y ago
And sometimes they might refuse to launch on targets in the enemy's country. http://lesswrong.com/lw/jq/926_is_petrov_day/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/jq/926_is_petrov_day/
The scenario is from the Terminator series.. I always thought it was simpler to just press "LAUNCH" than to reconfigure all the targets. From the perspective of Skynet, the Russian response would be faster than relocating all the missiles in the US, then launching, so that's the course of action.
- nradov 15y agoSupposedly (no way to verify) with US and Russian missiles there is now always a targeting step required before launch. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_%E2%80%93_Russia_mutual_detargeting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_%E2%80%93_Russia_...
- arethuza 15y agoI suspect that they only agreed to that once it became possible to retarget missiles very quickly.