We’ll, one of the corners cut was in the design of the control rods, and the Soviet government hid that from the operators. Did they screw up? Sure, but they di

We’ll, one of the corners cut was in the design of the control rods, and the Soviet government hid that from the operators. Did they screw up? Sure, but they did so believing — having been told — there was a fail safe that simply did not work as advertised.