News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces. Parent comment

Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by Johnny555 on Friday February 25, 2022 @02:13AM (#30464488)
That seems like a problem in itself, it needs to be on a hair trigger to fire soon enough to catch a weapon soon after launch. Sure would be bad to accidentally shoot down an unannounced manned rocket launch after the software thought it was a nuclear launch.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by bb88 on Friday February 25, 2022 @05:44PM (#30473293)
That's the problem decision time is so short.

Missile defense is as it exists today is not a deterrent.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by arc-in-space on Friday February 25, 2022 @03:45AM (#30465033)
Well, I think the equilibrium here is that, all civilian rocket launches should be announced, not the worst outcome. Isn't this already the case?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by Johnny555 on Friday February 25, 2022 @11:54AM (#30469299)
Oh, so as long as the humans in every country that announce the rocket launches and the humans that enter known launches into missile defense systems do their jobs perfectly every single time, then everything will be ok.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by bb88 on Friday February 25, 2022 @05:48PM (#30473328)
It is the case, but aren't you then trusting your enemy to be honest? It would allow at least one warhead to get through the boost phase.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces by sterlind on Friday February 25, 2022 @04:34AM (#30465364)
this got miscommunicated once and led to Boris Yeltsin opening the nuclear football and weighing launch orders when the call came in that it was actually a Norwegian sounding rocket, not a surprise Arctic first strike.
[ Parent | on HN ]