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I have visions of nuclear weapons systems programmers reading Scenario II and going, "Ohhhh, damn, why didn't we think of that?" and, a year from now, that's wh
by ergonaught 4y ago
I have visions of nuclear weapons systems programmers reading Scenario II and going, "Ohhhh, damn, why didn't we think of that?" and, a year from now, that's what we'll have.
- atemerev 4y agoThis problem was discovered and taken care of from the start of the development of modern nuclear weapon designs. See “strong link / weak link” and “always/never problem”, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_link/weak_link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_link/weak_link (I believe the diagram here is wrong, but it doesn’t require much thinking to deduce how the correct diagram should look like).