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  • #46
    Again, such errors were common and widespread. These are the big errors that got through. It doesn't tell you the little errors that were caught in time. Also, both the US and the USSR had mistaken civilian launches as nuke launches in the past because somebody somewhere forgot to tell the guys watching the skies.

    It does not take much to confuse the system into thinking a multiple launch event is occurring even with multiple inputs. Can you imagine that 2200 ICBM tape being ran with an actual satellite launch in progress? The probabilities of error is too high to rely on a launch-on-warning.

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    • #47
      And thinking this through further. Do you have time to cross reference? We're talking as little as 12 minutes to a maximum of 30. In the Carter scenario, the POTUS only have 7 minutes to wake up, get his bearings, make a decision, find his code groups, and authorize a strike.

      That is way too tight of a time frame for a proper decision to launch-on-warning.

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