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Re:Three papers highlight results of record yield nuclear fu... by benreesman on Sunday August 14, 2022 @09:18PM (#32464819)
I mean, all that game theory that the RAND corporation (and whatever their Soviet counterparts were called) seems to have worked out so far.

I think you’d need some pretty well-qualified people to crunch the numbers before just, winging it with something different. Given the stakes and all.

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Re:Three papers highlight results of record yield nuclear fu... by sneak on Sunday August 14, 2022 @09:45PM (#32464994)
It worked out only because Stanislav Petrov decided to ignore it all and violate orders.
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Re:Three papers highlight results of record yield nuclear fu... by RhodesianHunter on Sunday August 14, 2022 @10:29PM (#32465232)
Which is kind of the point. Everyone involved in the process from the leader at the top making the call, to the individuals manning the silos, has to make a conscious decision to end the world.
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Re:Three papers highlight results of record yield nuclear fu... by sneak on Sunday August 14, 2022 @11:42PM (#32465642)
No, the point of mutually assured destruction is to ensure that retaliation is credible and even perhaps automated.

You seem to have it backwards. The only reason we are alive is because the designed system that was built failed following a computer error. The point was to respond.

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Re:Three papers highlight results of record yield nuclear fu... by pfdietz on Sunday August 14, 2022 @11:18PM (#32465484)
It's observer selection bias. We're preferentially in a universe where global nuclear war didn't happen.
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