🚀 go-pugleaf

We did not get the orignal article.  News is unreliable.
In article <84...@ttidca.TTI.COM> holl...@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath) writes:
>In article <60...@wpi.wpi.edu> jwhi...@wpi.wpi.edu (John C Whitson KB2GNC) writes:
>}Basically, imagine the United States Defense computer
>}systems. Then imagine a whole slew of targets appear on
>}long distance monitors, seeming like a Soviet Attack!!!
>}The blips however were not confirmed by other means.
>}Then the blips went away.

This has happened several times.

>}Just think .... National Defense alertness based on a 20-cent
>}chip in a minicomputer ... makes one wonder a little.

All defense systems are made of inexpensive components and things
put together in expensive ways.  The wonder is the complexity of a system
and what happens when parts get blown away.  How to projects fall
a year behind?  One day at a time.

>but can probably dig them up.  I remember one incident described how NATO
>went on full red alert when their radar systems detected what looked like
>a full-bore Soviet weapons launch coming over the horizon.  We came within
>20 minutes of a massive nuclear exchange because our system had spotted
>_the rising full moon_.
>
>Scary stuff.

BMEWS, Sept. 5, 1960.  Ballistic Missile Early Warning System.
Case is well documented.  Scary is what one never hears. 8|

Another gross generalization from

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