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Article #163Re: hardware failure!
From: cast... Brian Anderson
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1990 23:24
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1990 23:24
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In article <KIM.90Ja...@watnow.waterloo.edu> k...@watnow.waterloo.edu (T. Kim Nguyen) writes: >In article <51...@XAIT.Xerox.COM> d...@XAIT.Xerox.COM (Donald Eastlake) writes: > defense computer systems that produce a number of false alarms that are > then evaluated in the overall context by human judgement. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >I question this latter claim. In the few minutes the decision must be >made to counterattack I'm not so certain that a) there would be time A counterattack decision does not have to be made within the time window between missile detection and impact. This is known as "launch on warning" and it's never been US defense policy. The strategy right now (and for quite some time) is to ride out an attack and then retaliate with whatever missiles are left over. This is one reason the US has so many warheads on submarines; being much less vulnerable to a surprise attack they provide a deterrent that has so far proven very effective.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!mailrus!wuarchive!mit-eddie!mit-amt!castillo From: cast...@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Brian Anderson) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: hardware failure! Message-ID: <1348@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Date: 8 Jan 90 23:24:48 GMT References: <6058@wpi.wpi.edu> <8402@ttidca.TTI.COM> <51533@XAIT.Xerox.COM> <KIM.90Jan7232307@watnow.waterloo.edu> Reply-To: cast...@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Brian Anderson) Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA Lines: 17 Posted: Tue Jan 9 00:24:48 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit