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Article #620546Re: 1963--nuclear weapon alarm system
From: Andreas Kohlbach
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 21:27
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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* -- Andreas You know you are a redneck if you refer to the time you won a free case of oil as the "day my ship came in."
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