expiredphoinix | Staff posted Mar 15, 2025 12:19 PM
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expiredphoinix | Staff posted Mar 15, 2025 12:19 PM
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident (eBook)
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I read this book about 6 years ago, when the saber rattling with NK was happening, and it was terrifying.
The book never claims Damascus would have exploded. It's about the lax safety culture, the push for development over safety, and the general view by the government during the cold war that an accidental detonation on US soil was preferable to not being able to ensure MAD. Also, a lot of coverage about how our interception system was a sham.
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I read this book about 6 years ago, when the saber rattling with NK was happening, and it was terrifying.
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I read this book about 6 years ago, when the saber rattling with NK was happening, and it was terrifying.
Blowing up a bunch of nuclear material (dirty bomb) is definitely something that can happen but this isn't traditionally what's referred to as a nuclear explosion.
Blowing up a bunch of nuclear material (dirty bomb) is definitely something that can happen but this isn't traditionally what's referred to as a nuclear explosion.
The book never claims Damascus would have exploded. It's about the lax safety culture, the push for development over safety, and the general view by the government during the cold war that an accidental detonation on US soil was preferable to not being able to ensure MAD. Also, a lot of coverage about how our interception system was a sham.
For a single nuke being handled by an individual or team at any moment, the chances of an unintended disaster are probably extremely low. But when you multiply that risk across time and space, the math could change, significantly.
The book never claims Damascus would have exploded. It's about the lax safety culture, the push for development over safety, and the general view by the government during the cold war that an accidental detonation on US soil was preferable to not being able to ensure MAD. Also, a lot of coverage about how our interception system was a sham.
You cannot accidentally detonate a nuclear explosion. Fission isn't something that happens by accident. These bombs have been crashed into the ground, dropped out of planes, set fire, blown up, and more and they've never accidentally detonated because you can't accidentally detonate them. They can't accidentally detonate because they require the specific series of events to detonate them. I'm not talking about someone needing to set them to armed--I'm talking a specific set of explosions inside the bomb. Those explosions can only happen when the bomb is in an explodable state and there's never been a case of that.
You cannot accidentally detonate a nuclear explosion. Fission isn't something that happens by accident. These bombs have been crashed into the ground, dropped out of planes, set fire, blown up, and more and they've never accidentally detonated because you can't accidentally detonate them. They can't accidentally detonate because they require the specific series of events to detonate them. I'm not talking about someone needing to set them to armed--I'm talking a specific set of explosions inside the bomb. Those explosions can only happen when the bomb is in an explodable state and there's never been a case of that.
There is no guarantee if that same incident was repeated three times, that it would not have resulted in detonation in two out of those three times.
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