I dunno. I try hard to avoid trusting switches with my life, or if I must, I try to make sure I have at least two or more mechanically triggered switches betwe

I dunno. I try hard to avoid trusting switches with my life, or if I must, I try to make sure I have at least two or more mechanically triggered switches between myself and impending doom. The switches in this case are likely soft switches or relays, if they could be triggered electrically. If the other three failed, there could be all sorts of reasons to be concerned about this. Interestingly I had been told about this incident growing up in the 1980's by pro-nuclear-disarmament folks. But the question in my mind is what would have happened if the bomb had detonated? Would we have jumped to the conclusion that the Soviets were somehow responsible? Could the accident, have triggered nuclear war?