Nuclear Folly, a book on the Cuban Missile Crisis by Serhii Plokhy makes and interesting point, the Nuclear Age came before the Information Age. The consequenc

Nuclear Folly, a book on the Cuban Missile Crisis by Serhii Plokhy makes and interesting point, the Nuclear Age came before the Information Age. The consequences of this were very nearly catastrophic, as the speed at which communication occurred was just so slow, with intel and news coming in so very very slowly. Discussions were being made in the dark and were outdated or based on outdated incorrect assumption. I think there was considerably more luck than we’d like in the ‘system’ we engineered.