N. Korea's Leader Hints of Long-Range Missile Test
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[QUOTE=DOCTOR LIGHT;51614843]The "kill 'em all" attitude of people here is frightening.[/QUOTE]
I don't have a "kill 'em all" attitude. You need to realize that you can't always find a peaceful solution for a totalitarian militaristic state that has a bloodlust for the West and brainwashes and imprisons its own citizens.
come on kim, give us a reason
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9IQmhfGEhU[/media]
Prepare for Kim Fat Ugh launchin' his baristic misshile all ovar the werld
Has Trump mentioned NK or anything about them? Given his quick-to-twitter-angrily attitude, I wonder how that'll jive with NK's constant sabre-rattling.
[QUOTE=spazthemax;51615417]Has Trump mentioned NK or anything about them? Given his quick-to-twitter-angrily attitude, I wonder how that'll jive with NK's constant sabre-rattling.[/QUOTE]
[Media]https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/816057920223846400[/Media]
[QUOTE=OmniConsUme;51615559][Media]https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/816057920223846400[/Media][/QUOTE]
Speak of the devil and he shall appear, I suppose.
[QUOTE=OmniConsUme;51615559][Media]https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/816057920223846400[/Media][/QUOTE]
Yeah, real smart Trump. Lets challenge them and see if it does. :downs: Take this fucking idiots Twitter away, please.
[QUOTE=OmniConsUme;51615559][Media]https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/816057920223846400[/Media][/QUOTE]
many such cases!
[QUOTE=TestECull;51614746]Yeah, ours is well maintained though. Outdated, sure, but it isn't dilapidated. I don't fear an accidental false positive sending any Minutemen III up into the air.
However, I don't trust the Russian early warning/launch detection systems to be as well cared for, especially considering the transfer of power from Soviet governance to 'democratic' governance throughout the 90s and the associated lack of money. We've already had one scare where the only thing stopping total nuclear annihilation was an officer at one of these stations judging the computers to be giving a false positive and ordering the base to stand down rather than allow a retaliatory strike. There's precedent and, as much as I'd like to believe Russia is doing everything they can to make sure it doesn't happen(And modern Russia can certainly afford to ensure their computers are in tip-top shape), I'm still somewhat worried they'll have another false positive.[/QUOTE]
But why do you assume they don't take care about their computers? Do you have any source on that? And what do you even mean by "dilapidated"? Some rusty boxes with half-working mainfrmes full of dust and dead cockroaches? I'm pretty sure they do scheduled maintenance as well as replace malfunctioned parts etc (not to mention heavy redundancy of the systems), and I believe they did it even during the worst years of the early 90th exactly because you must be pure insane to just abandon things that can potentially fry the whole world.
As for that false early warning alarm, from what i remember that was caused by some natural phenomenon that tricked the system into thinking an ICBM was launched. THe problem was not in the hardware, but rather in software or, arguably, there was no problem at all, as the signatures of the aformenetioned phenomenon just matched those of a nuclear launch.
Anyway, I can definitely agree with you on the point that both the US and Russia should finally upgrade their computers responsible for such an important task, and, from what I know, both sides have already started doing that, so maybe in the next ~5 years at least one of the problems with nuclear weapons will be solved.
[QUOTE=antianan;51616840]But why do you assume they don't take care about their computers? Do you have any source on that? And what do you even mean by "dilapidated"? Some rusty boxes with half-working mainfrmes full of dust and dead cockroaches? I'm pretty sure they do scheduled maintenance as well as replace malfunctioned parts etc (not to mention heavy redundancy of the systems), and I believe they did it even during the worst years of the early 90th exactly because you must be pure insane to just abandon things that can potentially fry the whole world.
As for that false early warning alarm, from what i remember that was caused by some natural phenomenon that tricked the system into thinking an ICBM was launched. THe problem was not in the hardware, but rather in software or, arguably, there was no problem at all, as the signatures of the aformenetioned phenomenon just matched those of a nuclear launch.
Anyway, I can definitely agree with you on the point that both the US and Russia should finally upgrade their computers responsible for such an important task, and, from what I know, both sides have already started doing that, so maybe in the next ~5 years at least one of the problems with nuclear weapons will be solved.[/QUOTE]
You are correct.
If I recall correctly, it was the sunlight reflecting off the ocean. It created the visual signature the software was looking for through chance and some interaction of meteorological and tidal forces.
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