[throwup238]

Some contractor creates an internal webhook for testing the silo door that later gets accidentally hooked up to the full launch sequence and - during a billion dollar DoD mainframe upgrade project (to finally get away from COBOL) - gets exposed to the internet. MAD doctrine does the rest.

That is how the Anthropocene ends and the age of the machines begins. So say we all.

[Art9681]

This is the kind of nonsense that happens at startups, not government agencies with the capability to destroy cities.

[NateEag]

It sounds like you may not have read the "broken arrow" incidents Wikipedia page:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_acc...

There are a number of hair-raising stories tucked away in there.

Paired with knowledge of things like Stuxnet (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet), the broken arrow list fills with worry for what might happen with nuclear weapons systems in our modern, hyper-connected world.

[pksebben]

please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_close_calls