Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Fail-Safe Fallacy: The Hidden Danger of Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear weapons depend on elaborate safeguards intended to prevent unauthorized use while ensuring retaliation remains possible. But safeguards against one kind of failure can create vulnerabilities to another. Can the world's nuclear command systems be trusted to prevent catastrophe when their collective reliability cannot be established?
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