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See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail_deadly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail_deadly Fail deadly mechanisms go off unless they are explicitly told not t
by mare_liberyum 13y ago
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail_deadly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail_deadly
Fail deadly mechanisms go off unless they are explicitly told not to. During the cold war, Russia implemented fail deadly policies in an attempt to assure a retaliatory nuclear strike would go off even if most in power were taken out by a first strike.
- lylejohnson 13y agoI always thought that the doomsday machine in "Dr. Strangelove" was an invention of Kubrick's. I had no idea that this was a real thing.
- mordae 13y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mertvaya_Ruka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mertvaya_Ruka