Re: Are there any simple BBC internet radio programs for the Pi?

On Fri, 6 Sep 2024 12:24:17 -0700
wmartin <wwm@wwmartin.net> wrote:

You want scary? It's not fictional. In 1985 the Soviet Union activated
what they called the "Perimeter System" aka "Dead Hand", which once
activated would look for signs of a nuclear strike on the "homeland",
and if the algorithm decided they had been attacked, would launch every
icbm in the arsenal, all pre-targeted. Still operational under the
Russian Federation.

AT least it would attempt to - I read at the time that when the cold
war ended and a lot of weapons were decomissioned with witnesses a good
many of them would have failed to either launch or go off.

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