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by Art9681 831 days ago
This is the kind of nonsense that happens at startups, not government agencies with the capability to destroy cities.
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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.