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On 10 Feb 2018 08:49:33 GMT, ma...@mail.com wrote:

>On 2018-02-09, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>><hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:
>>> In 1963, Western Union, under contract with the US Air Force, installed 
>>> a nationwide nuclear weapon detonation detection system.  If there
>>> was an attack, the airforce would be immediately notified.
>>> 
>>> The system worked by having special sensors that would only be
>>> triggered by the intense light of a nuclear weapon.  Other light
>>> (sunlight, lightning, etc) would not affect it.  Upon receipt of
>>> the blast light, the sensor would send a off signal before the blast
>>> shock wave (travels slower) and destroyed the sensor and wires.
>>> Areas would have multiple sensors in case one was destroyed.
>>> 
>>> The sensors and warning system is described in the WUTR:
>>> http://massis.lcs.mit.edu/telecom-archives/archives/technical/western-union-tech-review/17-1/p032.htm
>>> 
>>
>> There is a story that there is one radio station in Russia (Moscow)  that
>> broadcasts nothing but a continuous tone. Supposedly, if it ever stops
>> broadcasting it will trigger a fail-safe launch on nukes. I read a story
>> about this, but later it turned up in several factual contexts.
>>
>
>Variation on Dr, Strangelove?.
>
>I lost my SW radio, but there used to be many, many very peculiar
>broadcasts

Numbers stations still broadcast.

>The was a story of a Catholic couple in Ireland that had trouble
>conceiving children, so the local parish priest was going to Rome,
>and promised that he would light a candle in a certain church there,
>and that wwould do the trick. 
>
>The priest was sent on to the Missions and got home to his Irish
>prish years after, so went to see the couple, the back door was
>hanging off the hinges, children everywhere, but no sign of the
>husband, Where was he?
>
>"He is gone to Rome to make sure that bloody candle has gone out."

Most likely they figured out to do it.