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Comment by fennecfoxen

What's really more likely? A Soviet spy gains physical access to your nuclear weapons and launches or detonates one (or several), possibly starting a global thermonuclear war (which the Kremlin could honestly start at any time if it were interested anyway) with a modest advantage on the Soviet side. (A possible advantage - it depends how quickly the Soviets are able/willing to follow up with additional nukes.)

or...

You lock yourself out of your own nukes during a crisis because you have a big fancy launch-code-management system and it falls apart because key people are confused and/or dead.

In related news, handguns with fingerprint sensors and other electronic locks will protect you in case a criminal breaks in and steals your gun from you - and yet they're not very popular among gun owners.

parent fennecfoxen 13 years ago

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