Although I regard it as unlikely, a point made during the time of Reagan's strategic space defence initiative was the risk of the USSR fearing a technology gap

Although I regard it as unlikely, a point made during the time of Reagan's strategic space defence initiative was the risk of the USSR fearing a technology gap and launching first strike before they lost MAD opportunity. We don't live in that many worlds timeline but I say this, since we do now live in strange times. Times where people appear willing to allow reductive machine decision support systems far more lattitude in the crisis moments. Ask yourself "what could possibly go wrong" aside from the tremendous amounts of money being spent on systems we earnestly hope would not be used.