Recall that MAD required that the US commit itself to destroy the Soviet Union if it detected that the USSR launched their nuclear missiles
And the world as we know it is still around because Stanislav Petrov ignored that order and insisted the US couldn’t possibly be stupid enough to actually launch that sort of attack.
I would pray that the US operators were equally sensible, but maybe they just got lucky and never had a technical glitch threaten the existence of humanity.
And the world as we know it is still around because Stanislav Petrov ignored that order and insisted the US couldn’t possibly be stupid enough to actually launch that sort of attack.
I would pray that the US operators were equally sensible, but maybe they just got lucky and never had a technical glitch threaten the existence of humanity.