• frezik@midwest.social
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    8 months ago

    Context matters. If there are no escalations happening in world politics, why would there suddenly be an order to launch?

    If the same glitch happened while Russian leaders are going hint hint nudge nudge towards their nuclear arsenal, would that operator do the same thing?

    Maybe the worst thing about nukes isn’t that the button will be pressed on purpose, but that some damn fool thing will happen on accident and things happen before anyone can take stock of the situation.

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      8 months ago

      No idea what you’re taking about tbh. As I said there was no order and it was during cold war iirc. Not sure what you mean by Russian leaders using glitch as an excuse. If it happened there would be no one left to blame.

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        8 months ago

        I mean that right now, Putin is in a war where he’s actively reminding the rest of the world that they have nukes to use. If an order comes down to launch now, that’s different than an order that comes down when nothing else is happening.

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          8 months ago

          Yes but I want taking about it? I was replying to someone who mentioned the cold war incident