09-25-2009, 05:23 AM
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Originally Posted by MDCQ
If I'm reading correctly, the decision to push the button was irrelevant. It was the fourth IF/THEN sequence. So how long once the decision came down to human hands in a bunker would the machine wait before pushing the button for them.
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The way I read it a person would still have to make the final decision to launch.
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Perimeter, he points out, was never a truly autonomous doomsday device. "If there are explosions and all communications are broken," he says, "then the people in this facility can?I would like to underline can?launch."
Yes, I agree, a human could decide in the end not to press the button. But that person is a soldier, isolated in an underground bunker, surrounded by evidence that the enemy has just destroyed his homeland and everyone he knows. Sensors have gone off; timers are ticking. There's a checklist, and soldiers are trained to follow checklists.
Wouldn't any officer just launch? I ask Yarynich what he would do if he were alone in the bunker. He shakes his head. "I cannot say if I would push the button."
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