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Re: 1963--nuclear weapon alarm system

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From: Dave Garland
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 17:47
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On 2/11/2018 2:30 AM, ma...@mail.com wrote:
> On 2018-02-10, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 9 Feb 2018 16:43:52 -0700, Peter Flass 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.
>>>
>>> I love Number Stations. No idea what their purpose is today, just loving
>>> them. :-)
>>>
>>> Could put up my own station, announcing random numbers. Having some three
>>> letter agencies wasting their time investigating. *g*
>>
>> A web site would be funny - just a blank screen with a constantly changing
>> sequence of  numbers.
>>
> 
> Radio better, even one using Morse, you need good power to get
> internet

It's not easy to tell who's listening to a radio station. If you have 
state level resources, it's a lot easier to determine who is 
connecting to any particular website.
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